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 ...

A globe-hopping tale of two too-cute con men, The Brothers Bloom is a stridently whimsical pileup of fraud, treasure, love and regret. Any hints of actual emotion, however, are squelched by hammy ...

So I think Johnson made the right choice with The Brothers Bloom, a daffy, jolly tale that's completely different from Brick in style and tone, and thus cannot be compared to it. If you're worried ...

The Brothers Bloom immediately challenges its audience to not think of Wes Anderson: Rian Johnson’s sophomore feature (after Brick) barrels out of the gate with a kinetic, Ricky Jay–narrated ...

The Brothers Bloom are a pair of con men brothers, who you would think share the last name of “Bloom.” But as it turns out, “Bloom” is simply the younger brother’s first name (played by ...

The Brothers Bloom, Rian Johnson’s follow up to his 2005 film-noir-set-in-high-school Brick, has a tough act to follow. Brick sparkled with the incongruous, yet somehow perfectly appropriate ...

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 ...

The Brothers Bloom mixes it up a lot more. It's an ambitious comedy in the form of a literary con movie, with a strongly self-conscious atmosphere. It ruminates on many things, including its own form.