The Coens' critically admired filmmaking has never generated blockbuster box office.

柯恩兄弟非主流的电影风格也从来没有产生过轰动的票房。

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Because it is a comedy, the Coens' new film, "Burn after Reading," is something of a palate cleanser for the brothers after the rigors of the Academy Award-winning "No Country for Old Men."

在电影《老无所依》艰难获得美国电影艺术金像奖后，柯恩兄弟的新喜剧电影《阅后即焚》并不符合兄弟俩的风格。

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The Coens have certainly done their homework: their movie is a brilliant reading of Hammett.

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The Coens treat this emblematic figure of thirties culture with merciless contempt.

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"Thank you to the Coens for being crazy enough to think that I could do that, and to put one of the most horrible haircuts in history over my head, " he said.

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