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Top 10: Repeat Offenders in the Coen Bros. and George Clooney

Whenever the Coen bros. need to cast an idiot – they look to George Clooney to fill the shoes. Completing his trilogy of dummies with O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty, Clooney provided comic relief in the zany role of a serial dater who has every reason to be paranoid.

Eric Lavallée

Published on December 21, 2008

5. Burn After Reading

Comments: Whenever the Coen bros. need to cast an idiot – they look to George Clooney to fill the shoes. Completing his trilogy of dummies with O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty, Clooney provided comic relief in the zany role of a serial dater who has every reason to be paranoid.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).