Pretty, well acted and amusing, if ultimately superficial.

| Aug 23, 2018

We feel regularly discombobulated on the sea of this movie's ideas - which is a good thing for people feeling marooned by the general stupidity of this summer's film releases.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 9, 2010

If Wes Anderson and Terry Gilliam ever had a child, science would be amazed and appalled. But also, it would probably end up making a film like this.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 9, 2010

Sharp, funny and stylish, but still, something doesn't quite fit...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2010

The effect is something like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels done by Wes Anderson in a morose mood, much as its creator would presumably resist the latter comparison.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2010

Oh dear.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2010

Perhaps you can be too cool for school and too clever for a multiplex, but if you're willing to go along with this, you'll enjoy being fooled so much that you won't mind it's all a trick.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 2, 2010

This is the kind of "movie movie" that puts everything in quotation marks, letting Johnson indulge his most romantic daydreams.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 12, 2009

If not for Rachel Weisz, the movie would be too literary, too clever, too pleased with itself. Her character makes it emotional, although she's not the main focus.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2009

Watching this movie is like being elbowed in the ribs for two consecutive hours.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2009

The Brothers Bloom is to precocious adventure movies what Crank is to action throwdowns; it finds the genre's limit and doubles it.

| Original Score: B | May 28, 2009

Although it's got a strong cast and visual panache, Johnson willfully dispenses with the caper complications that might have made it more fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 28, 2009

Even if you don't quite comprehend the ending (there seem to be 12 of them), you'll still feel the wallop of its consequences.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 22, 2009

It's not blockbuster material, but this clever picture is a romantic -- and genuinely amusing -- charmer.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 22, 2009

Ruffalo turns in another take on his soulful smart guy; Brody's all loosey-goosey charm (watch how he plays a harmonica, with his eyes lazily sliding over it); Weisz make something poetic from her ditsy yet forthright character.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 22, 2009

The writer-director builds on his tremendous gift for gab and fondness for intricate narratives.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 22, 2009

A screwball comedy for the New Depression, "The Brothers Bloom" makes an abundant number of erudite references that mean almost nothing, and, like most con-man movies, it can't be trusted.

| May 22, 2009

A gorgeous, elaborate, beautifully-shot, well-acted con movie of the highest order.

| May 22, 2009

A globetrotting heist film that starts off terrifically and then progressively deflates.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 22, 2009

These components add up to precious little in this precious affair too concerned with its look to say much worth listening to.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 22, 2009