People are voting emotionally.

Lack of good storyline.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

A Serious Man is seriously disappointing. This film takes the book of Job and makes it even more bleak than the original story. The dialogue and acting are actually quite good, but the story is intolerable most of the time. This is on the low end of Coen Brothers' movies.

At first sigh, theirs names annswers to all questions. in reasonable way. because, it is a story about solitude, family crisis, Jewish humor and stereotypes, the need to adapte yourself to a world without meaning. in same ,measure, it is a challenge for viewer. to define himself. to be honest about the perspectivve about small details defining ordinary every day life. and this is the basic motif for see this special film.

Sorry, but I grew up in MN, and there were never this many Jews in the state. Don't know why it had to be Jewish, since they only make up less than 1% of the entire population of the whole country.

I don't get why this movie is so highly rated. To begin with, I couldn't even watch it in one sitting. The protagonist (Larry) seems to be an intelligent man, but almost has nothing under his control. The thing that he keeps repeating about himself always boil down to him "not doing anything". He doesn't know his wife is having an affair, or that his kids are brats who show little appreciation for their family. To top it off, he's being blackmailed by his own student. It makes for a very sorry state of affairs, with Larry not exactly tackling anything at all.I'm not even going to mention how helpless I felt seeing him suffer through all this. Though most of his problems just magically evaporate later on, I can't seem to help and wonder how inert he remained to the entire situation. You can see now how much I did not like Larry.Here's a warning to others who decide to watch this movie thinking it'll be an off-beat comedy flick to enjoy in their free time.