But it serves no critical or artistic purpose to judge the film - in theaters since Dec. 25 and debuting on AppleTV Jan. 14 - by what it may have been with Ethan Coen onboard

Starring Denzel Washington and Francis McDormand, highly abstracted version of Shakespeare's classic reaches US theaters, will stream online January 14

Shakespeare adaptation starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand is a minimalist noir nightmare, cloaked in shadow and fog and filled with expressionist imagery

In the 1998 movie, Walter shows that even a foul-mouthed, bandana-wearing Vietnam vet doesn't have to 'roll on Shabbos'

The famed directors' most overtly Jewish work is a tragicomedy said to be loosely based on the Book of Job, and lampoons both the clergy and American Jewry as a whole