Brad Pitt is making the movie star thing look darn easy. Since he last collaborated with director Andrew Dominik, he’s starred in the Coen brothers‘ “Burn After Reading,” David Fincher‘s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Quentin Tarantino‘s “Inglourious Basterds,” Terrence Malick‘s “The Tree of Life,” and Bennett Miller‘s “Moneyball.”
It’s been arguably the best stretch of his career, one vacillating between comedy and drama and defined not by summer blockbusters but by provocative director-oriented fare.
The bookends to the period are Andrew Dominik’s “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” and “Killing Them Softly.