Burn After Reading
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- Synopsis
- A dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen. An ousted CIA official's (Academy Award nominee John Malkovich) memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find....
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- Director(s)
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Distributor(s)
- Focus Features
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 97 min.
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Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites
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
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
The characters are zany, the plot coils upon itself with dizzy zeal, and the roles seem like a perfect fit for the actors -- yes, even Brad Pitt, as Chad, a gum-chewing, fuzzy-headed physical fitness instructor. I've always thought of him as a fine actor, but here he reveals a dimension that, shall I say, we haven't seen before.Read the full review
USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites
It's consistently funny -- with witty dialogue and offbeat banter that stays in your head for days.Read the full review
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