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Coens of comedy

Posted by Ty Burr July 24, 2008 10:25 AM

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My favorite trailer of the week: the short, sharp preview for "Burn After Reading," due in early September from the Coen Brothers. Their first effort after the triumph of "No Country for Old Men," the film looks like a return to manic comedy for the bros, and those few of us who made it through "The Ladykillers" may rightly start worrying. But, hell, that cast: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Richard Jenkins, Tilda Swinton, and in what looks like a big, broad goofball change of pace, Brad Pitt. If the movie's half as funny as the preview, we're in for a treat.

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