"A Serious Man" is the latest Coen Brothers movie and, as is their practice, it's completely different from their most recent couple of movies, "Burn After Reading" and "No Country for Old Men." This is perhaps more like some of their earlier films like "Fargo," in the sense that it's set in small-town middle America (in this case in Minnesota) and features the small stories of the people living there. Our focus here is on Larry Gopnik (played by Michael Stuhlbarg), an associate mathematics professor... read more
