A Serious Man The Coen brothers remake the Book of Job in 1967 suburban Minneapolis. It’s Jewish Bergman and one of their very best films - a pitch-black Old Testament farce in which God is either absent, absent-minded, or mad as hell. Love it or hate it, it’ll haunt you for a long time. Michael Stuhlbarg plays the hapless hero. (105 min., R) (Ty Burr)
2012 “Apocalypse Really Soon’’ or “Airport 2012.’’ Director Roland Emmerich (“The Day After Tomorrow’’) imagines global apocalypse as a state-of-the-art multiplex circus whose special effects stagger the senses and play like a video game, and whose human drama aims for the cosmic and lands waist-deep in the Big Silly. John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Amanda Peet are among the humans. (157 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)
