Burn After Reading Critic Reviews

It's consistently funny -- with witty dialogue and offbeat banter that stays in your head for days.Read the full review

It's a clever setup for a spoof of the espionage thriller, but despite the film's intermittent pleasures (Pitt's gum-snapping dolt chief among them), the result is oddly airless.Read the full review

This is a thriller with a high quotient of comedic elements or, if you prefer, a comedy with a high quotient of thriller elements. As is always the case with a production of Joel & Ethan, it's difficult to classify, but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable.Read the full review

It's a cheerful trifle tossed off by the Coen brothers in their self-enchanted mode, an approach to comedy that shrugs off comedy's cardinal rule -- Don't Act Funny.Read the full review

This feels like a second-shelf Coen comedy, particularly when compared to their no-less-shaggy "The Big Lebowski."Read the full review

Because it's a Coen brothers film before it's anything else, this is about as dark and nihilistic as comedies are allowed to get before the laughter dies bitterly on your lips.Read the full review

Joel and Ethan Coen clearly are in a prankish mood, knocking out a minor piece of silliness with all the trappings of an A-list studio movie.Read the full review

The movie is overplowed, even if Brad Pitt's debut as a Coen comedy player is eye-catching.Read the full review

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 warrant a Jarvik 8.Read the full review