I have the privilege of knowing and loving many high-minded, intelligent, serious young people. Charlie stands out as one of the best. How did Charlie Kirk become such a serious man? He worked at it, ...

A Serious Man may be the most complex movie of the Coen brothers' career, and that's saying a lot, but an ending like the one in this film can be picked apart for decades. The Coen brothers have a ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Michael Stuhlbarg in "A Serious Man" (2009). Focus Features photo For the Coen brothers, life is a joke, and here they toss a ...

The purpose of this column, ostensibly, is for me to vent through the lens of pop culture about my problems and neuroses. But my issues don't hold a candle to those of Larry Gopnik, the protagonist of ...