Weekend Film Reviews
Burn after Reading; Towelhead
Burn after Reading could just as well have been called Forget after Seeing... Towelhead, directed by Alan Ball from his adaptation of the novel by Alicia Erian, is a bleak coming-of-age comedy set in suburban Texas during the first Gulf War.
By Joe Morgenstern • • 4m ListenBurn after Reading
, the new black comedy from the Coen Brother, and starring George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt, could just as well have been called
Forget after Seeing...
, directed by Alan Ball, the Academy Award-winning writer of
American Beauty and
Six Feet Under, and adapted from the
novel by Alicia Erian, is a bleak coming-of-age comedy set in suburban Texas during the first Gulf War.
Banner image from Burn after Reading: Macall Polay/Focus Features