The latest from Joel and Ethan

September 5th, 2008 at 03:08pm Will Pfeifer

BURN AFTER READING, the new comedy from the Coen Brothers — make that the Oscar-winning Coen brothers* — opened the Toronto International Film Festival Thursday night, and the reviews are starting to be heard. Good news, Coen fans — it looks like another winner.

James Rocchi of Cinematical.com says he laughed a lot and the movie has “carefully-timed punchlines and comedy so dry it’ll leave your lips chapped. ” Brad Pitt, as a dimwitted fitness trainer is, Rocchi says ” is, bluntly, inanely great — full of verve and conviction, and deeply funny.”

Over at Hollywood Elsewhere, Jeffrey Wells calls BURN “brilliant” and adds “When (Joel and Ethan Coen are) in the mood to dispense their extremely low opinion of human behavior, they are masters of the form. Nobody knows from dry, diseased and delectably deadpan like these guys. It’s in their bones and their blood.”

Sounds good to me! The movie opens in theaters next Friday, Sept. 12.

* And yes, I know they won an Oscar years ago for FARGO. I mean last year’s big victory for NO COUNTRY.

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