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Awards Daily —
... If you look at it this way, the movie is a feast.
If you’re on the misanthrope boat, this half-espionage, half-comedy of modern fools and manners is about as good as this sort of thing gets. But you have to forget about “laughing.” (Which is overrated anyway, despite what Joel McCrea’s John L. Sullivan might have thought.) Because this movie is about much more than that.
Cinematical’s Kim Voynar also liked the film:
The Coens intertwine all these separate lives into one piece of ...
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FilmArcade.net —
... writes, “Essentially this film is a chaotic ensemble drama about six intersecting characters - but remarkably it's hilarious. I don't know how the Coen Brothers did it, but all of the eclectic characters they gathered together in “Burn After Reading” all really shined through in the finished product. The only problem was the felt it a bit skimpy, like there could have been so much more.” Kim Voynar at Cinematical writes, “I would rank it up there with my two favorite Coen films, Fargo and O, Brother Where Art Thou?. Burn After Reading is a sharply written film that revolves ...
'Burn After Reading' web reviews
The Screening Log —
... • Cinematical's Kim Voynar: "The Coens intertwine all these separate lives into one piece of storytelling that's quickly paced, twisted and often laugh-out-loud funny." ...
Burn After Reading Review
FilmoFilia —
... as a world inhabited wholly by people without intelligence. Just about everybody whose name appears on the poster is skewering their onscreen persona, the most obvious being the picture’s two biggest stars, George Clooney and Brad Pitt . Pitt actually has a small supporting role. When his name shows up in the credits, it reads “And Brad Pitt.” Read more: IFC.com More Burn After Reading Reviews : Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading Gets Middling Early Reviews [/Film] TIFF Review: Burn After Reading [Cinematical] Burn After Reading Movie Review ...
