| It’s
always a pleasure to speculate what Hollywood
genre the Coen brothers will skewer next. No one
expected them to make a movie like No Country
for Old Men. The movie surprised even critics
who had taken for granted that you can expect
the unexpected from these two supremely gifted
brothers who make great filmmaking look so easy.
Burn After Reading is a comic crime caper starring
Brad Pitt and George Clooney about a couple of
dumb characters who schemes to blackmail a secret
service agent. We are probably a little tired
of seeing Pitt and Clooney in the Ocean series,
but that’s where the Coen brothers make
a difference: they make stars do very different
things.
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