A Serious Man - film review
The Coen brothers' glittering career continues its inexorable downward trajectory with a disappointing exercise in pointlessness. In fairness, the trailer gives sufficient warning of what to expect but glowing reviews in the mainstream media suggesting that this directorial pair are the finest film-makers in the history of civilisation should be read with caution.
Not funny enough to be a comedy and lacking substance as a drama, on exit from the cinema it's difficult to avoid the feeling of having donated 105 precious minutes of existence to an undeserving enterprise. Mercifully, those 105 minutes will be quickly forgotten.
A far-fetched plot, clunky symbolism, characters the like of which in real life don't exist (surely?), and are neither interesting nor amusing enough to be worth inventing, it's a struggle to find any redeeming feature.