The hints of glib cleverness that hovered around Rian Johnson's debut, "Brick," burst into full, glaring view in his cheeky follow-up, "The Brothers Bloom." The hints of glib cleverness that hover ...

The hints of glib cleverness that hovered around Rian Johnson's debut, "Brick," burst into full, glaring view in his cheeky follow-up, "The Brothers Bloom." The hints of glib cleverness that hover ...

The old carnival phrase "Close, but no cigar" comes to mind when watching The Brothers Bloom, a globetrotting heist film that starts off terrifically and then progressively deflates. Though it has ...