He brings spontaneous, imaginative energy to his threats, as when he moves his head to jangly music-box rhythms before telling a terrified boss-woman, “You’re not going to like what comes next.” Reilly is a master of marathon slow burns. Phoenix, an old pro at inchoate turmoil, proves that he can be scary-funny, not just one or the other, especially when he toys with people who double-cross him or think they can give him the jitters. They’re odd-couple hit men: a sober gentle giant (Reilly’s Eli) and a seething alcoholic killer (Phoenix’s Charlie). Reilly (respectively), are as droll as Reilly and Will Ferrell in Step Brothers. In The Sisters Brothers- a violent, whimsical, transfixing, and ultimately moving Western-frontier assassins Charlie and Eli Sisters, played with deadpan bravura by Joaquin Phoenix and John C.
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