The Brothers Bloom

Robert Abele

You can see the bulging vein of forced creativity throughout " The Brothers Bloom," a romp meant to evoke an Old World dream of steamships, elegant deception and moneyed eccentrics but that mostly recalls -- with ever-diminishing returns -- the arch playgrounds of Wes Anderson movies.
Con movies and the fractured bonds of family are writer-director Rian Johnson's twin engines here, as he opens with a whiplash-paced, whip-pan-crammed Ricky Jay-narrated prologue explaining the orphans-to-grifters origins and psychological background of fraudsters Stephen and Bloom. [...]

di Robert Abele, articolo completo (2459 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 15 maggio 2009