This is a movie I started watching with very modest expectations, given the gimmicky sounding premise (an alternative world where lying is unknown). The film surprised me with funny and original satire, and the promise of a possibly insightful look at the very concepts of truth and lies. Mark (Ricky Gervais) is an average, perhaps [...]

The Brothers Bloom is a new twist, or series of twists on a familiar movie theme: con artists whose schemes are so elaborate that we are never sure until the very end (if then) who is conning whom and what the real story is. Because this kind of story has been done so many times, [...]