7:50AM Seth | With the exciting news that Brad Pitt has
won his second best actor chalice today at the Venice Film Festival—for what the judging committee deemed his “indomitable spirit both on and off the screen, his effortless embodiment of the American masculine ideal, and the way sucking up to him will facilitate future access to his impossibly fertile and glamorous life partner, Angelina Jolie”—we thought it time to finally time to take a look at the movie which ushered him to victory. We speak, of course, of the Coen brothers’
Burn After Reading, which had its world premiere tonight at the festival. If Pitt, as Javier Bardem did before him, could win top accolades with a hairstyle this
ridiculous looking, then this truly must have been another masterwork from the sibling geniuses. Let’s see what the critics are saying. (And yes, spoilers ensue.)
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