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Burn After Reading (2008) - Critic Reviews - Page 7 of 10

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By Christian Toto (897) for Washington Times (392) on 11 Sep 2008

Burn After Reading is typical Coen brothers, but Brad Pitt's appearance is anything but expected…

Review of Burn After Reading (2008)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 11 Sep 2008

Out of boredom or a need to unbalance their audiences, the Coens' follow-up is a bumbler, its first half as aimless as a drunk spider making…

Review of Burn After Reading (2008)

By Frank Ochieng (928) for Movie Eye (513) on 11 Sep 2008

The Coens' brand of irreverent chuckles propels Burn After Reading as a stylistic and sassy sideshow for unredeemable rogues on the road to…

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By Kimberly Gadette (432) for LivePDX (33) on 11 Sep 2008

What's worse? Victimization by Washington's intel? Or victimization by a total lack of one's own…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 11 Sep 2008

Sour candy...redeemed by its humor and its clever construction, harkening back to the relatively optimistic crime comedy Fargo…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 11 Sep 2008

Burn' may be inspired by eight years of Washington iniquity, but it hardly represents a departure from the typically curdled worldview of the Coens…

Review of Burn After Reading (2008)

By Ron Wilkinson (582) for Monsters and Critics (513) on 11 Sep 2008

A stellar cast and the usual percolating plot of the Coens combine in one of their most entertaining crime comedies to date…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 11 Sep 2008

This isn't the Coens playing it safe following their Oscar win. Rather, Burn After Reading is a movie about idiots made by geniuses…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 11 Sep 2008

Ozzie (John Malkovich) embodies the problem of the CIA, of the intelligence community, which is that it reacts to data, then fashions a story…

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By Brandon Fibbs (448) for BrandonFibbs.com (287) on 11 Sep 2008

Burn After Reading, played for laughs by two directors clearly in prankish moods and never above inflicting their sadism on audiences, is the…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 11 Sep 2008

The clubby, predictably self-amused comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen, has a tricky plot, visual style, er, to burn, but so little heart as to…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 11 Sep 2008

It's clear that Burn After Reading is a wannabe cult favourite -- some viewers may embrace it; many more will just want to burn after watching…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 11 Sep 2008

It's a deliciously venal throwaway, and while the film does attempt to make some pointed comments about the declining mental acumen of American…

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By Abbie Bernstein (403) for iF Magazine (71) on 11 Sep 2008

There's a lot of cleverness here, but neither heart nor a spirit of true insanity…

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By Josh Hurst (38) for Christianity Today (953) on 11 Sep 2008

A deliriously funny and delightful comedy, another exceptional movie from a creative team that seems boundlessly skilled and imaginative no…

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By Stephen Becker (5) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 11 Sep 2008

As a chance to watch a gaggle of Serious Actors ham it up in an intricately plotted (though easy to follow) yarn, it's a well-executed diversion…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 10 Sep 2008

The transition from Oscar-winning masterpiece to this mess is especially depressing…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Seanax.com (387) on 10 Sep 2008

One of the Coens' more playful projects, much lighter and significantly slighter than No Country for Old Men or Fargo, but it's put together…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 10 Sep 2008

A minor work on the Coen brothers' résumé is still better than, or as good as, most other filmmakers' best…

Review of Burn After Reading (2008)

By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for EricDSnider.com (2,026) on 10 Sep 2008

A lesser Coen work, a negligible dark comedy that will be remembered alongside, say, The Ladykillers rather than with, say, The Big Lebowski…

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