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With Burn After Reading, the Coen Brothers have crafted another clever comedy/thriller with an outlandish plot and memorable characters.
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These are functioning morons, they walk and work among us. And they are brilliant and funny and in spite of the screwball-comedy nature of the story, they are completely believable. Nov 7, 2008
These are functioning morons, they walk and work among us. And they are brilliant and funny and in spite of the screwball-comedy nature of the story, they are completely believable.
Ben Mankiewicz
, Frances McDormand might get nominated for an Academy Award in a supporting role. She was great. Nov 7, 2008 | Full Review…
, Frances McDormand might get nominated for an Academy Award in a supporting role. She was great.
Ben Lyons
The Coens are loopy stylists, and it's often amusing to watch this comedy of errors unfold. But after a masterpiece like No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading is classified as disposable. Oct 18, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/4
The Coens are loopy stylists, and it's often amusing to watch this comedy of errors unfold. But after a masterpiece like No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading is classified as disposable.
Joe Williams
Halfway between a good Coen brothers movie and a terrible Coen brothers movie. Oct 17, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Halfway between a good Coen brothers movie and a terrible Coen brothers movie.
Matthew De Abaitua
Indeed, the spies and thrills don't add up at all. The plot is a total mistake. The characters are madly absurd. The film shouldn't work, but it does. Oct 17, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Indeed, the spies and thrills don't add up at all. The plot is a total mistake. The characters are madly absurd. The film shouldn't work, but it does.
James Christopher
Burn After Reading is the Coens' most mediocre film in a long time: a desperately strained black comic farce. Oct 17, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Burn After Reading is the Coens' most mediocre film in a long time: a desperately strained black comic farce.
Peter Bradshaw
Burn After Reading is a comedy that makes fun of almost everything, reminding you that almost none of it is laughing matter. Apr 29, 2019 | Full Review…
Burn After Reading is a comedy that makes fun of almost everything, reminding you that almost none of it is laughing matter.
Shubhra Gupta
The Coens are having none of it. The dopes we encounter every day are the real dopes, the creeps are the real creeps, the people in and around power who seem so stupid and venal really are stupid and venal... Oct 30, 2018 | Full Review…
The Coens are having none of it. The dopes we encounter every day are the real dopes, the creeps are the real creeps, the people in and around power who seem so stupid and venal really are stupid and venal...
Eileen Jones
A statement on imperial power and its sledgehammer approach to human life? Sure, why not. By the end, audiences will be as indifferent as the filmmakers. Oct 18, 2018 | Full Review…
A statement on imperial power and its sledgehammer approach to human life? Sure, why not. By the end, audiences will be as indifferent as the filmmakers.
Stephen Garrett
Quite a downer concept for a comedy, however black. Which is probably why it isn't very funny. Oct 10, 2018 | Full Review…
Quite a downer concept for a comedy, however black. Which is probably why it isn't very funny.
Megan Basham
Although there are a couple of vaguely amusing moments, it fails as a comedy because it just isn't funny, and it fails as a thriller because it just isn't suspenseful and it fails as entertainment of any kind because it is all so ludicrously improbable. Aug 23, 2018 | Full Review…
Although there are a couple of vaguely amusing moments, it fails as a comedy because it just isn't funny, and it fails as a thriller because it just isn't suspenseful and it fails as entertainment of any kind because it is all so ludicrously improbable.
Deborah Ross
It's not for everyone, or funny all the time, but it's worth it for the performances, the cast, the cinematography and of course the complicated and even absurd plot. [Full review in Spanish] Mar 16, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's not for everyone, or funny all the time, but it's worth it for the performances, the cast, the cinematography and of course the complicated and even absurd plot. [Full review in Spanish]
Laura Hiros
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