Films viewed in 2010

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The Brothers Bloom: As far as I can make it, the story of a confidence game gone terribly wrong, or terribly right. I adored Bang Bang, but then that's probably predictable. I think that the story might have benefited by taking the road more traveled, and delivered a solid, frothy comedy in which everybody does, in the end, get what they wanted -- Stephen's definition of a successful con. Instead, it veers off into darker territory and tries to have an in-depth fifteen minute discussion of the meaning of life, the unpredictability of the universe, and the necessity to script one's lies well.