Our critics' selections
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
An Education Carey Mulligan shines as the Oxford-bound honors student courted by a mysterious suitor twice her age (Peter Sarsgaard) in this resonant story directed by Lone Scherfig from Lynn Barber's memoir. 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




