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MoviesBurn After Reading
Starring:
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich
Review:
All the Academy Awards that Joel and Ethan Coen won for No
Country for Old Men produced an unintended effect: It made the
outlaw brothers respectable. That's got to be driving them nuts.
(Have any Oscar winners ever looked more miserable on camera?)
Luckily, the idiot-boy side of the Coens barrels out whenever
prestige threatens to choke their rebel spirit. Blood
Simple begat Raising Arizona, Barton Fink
begat The Hudsucker Proxy, and Fargo begat
(hello, stoner heaven) The Big Lebowski. For me, the only
time the slide into silly didn't work was when The Man Who
Wasn't There begat the twin low points in the Coen canon,
Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers.
Burn After Reading will have No Country
converts running for cover. Instead of a subtle walk through Cormac
McCarthy territory,...
Rating:
3 Stars
Published: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:44:56 GMT - Source: Rollingstone.Com - Read the article
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