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Michael Stuhlbarg (left) as the central character, with Adam Arkin in the Coen brothers' rewriting of the Book of Job, "A Serious Man."
Our critics' selections
Bright Star Jane Campion's ecstatic ode to tubercular Romantic poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and his muse, robust Regency fashion plate Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), is intimate as a whisper and timeless as first love. PG
Coco Before Chanel In Anne Fontaine's portrait of the influential designer, Audrey Tautou, the fetching gamine of Amélie, is the determined and prickly peasant who would dress princesses. PG-13
A Serious Man The Coen brothers' rewriting of the Book of Job is set in 1967 Minneapolis to the rhythms of Jefferson Airplane. Michael Stuhlbarg is the perplexed central character, a university physics professor forsaken by his brother, wife, children, colleagues - and, apparently, the Lord himself. R
