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Run a Quick Search on "Burn After Reading" starring George Clooney to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Burn After Reading"Browse more products related to "George Clooney, John Malkovich and Joel Coen"ReviewTotal Film, 02/01/2009, 3 stars out of 5 -- "Pitt amuses, Clooney gurns, McDormand crinkles and Malkovich steals the show." Entertainment Weekly, 12/26/2008, Included in Entertainment Weekly's 2008 Films Of The Year -- "[T]he Coen brothers' richest caper since FARGO. Like that film, it's an acrid thriller in which ordinary people commit desperate crimes." Empire, 11/01/2008, p.57-58, 4 stars out of 5 -- "This is precision-built madness. Beneath these chattering lunatics and the pinballing plot lies an intricacy worthy of Kubrick." Total Film, 11/01/2008, p.47, 3 stars out of 5 -- "BURN AFTER READING has some outstanding comic highlights -- many of them courtesy of Pitt himself. Loose-limbed and absent-minded, his hyper performance stays the right side of mannered." USA Today, 09/12/2008, "This latest offering from the Coen brothers is an outlandish dark farce/spy spoof with some hilarious characters and quotable lines." Los Angeles Times, 09/12/2008, "Pitt, a newcomer to the Coen's world, is completely at ease with this material....The actor matches McDormand laugh for laugh playing a doltish accomplice who means well but is not really cut out for the espionage game." Rolling Stone, 09/18/2008, p.116, 3 stars out of 4 -- "[T]he brothers have conjured a crazy-quilt comic thriller that takes on our growing national stupidity in the form of a sex farce. The result is wildly funny." Sight and Sound, 11/01/2008, 52-53, "[T]he dialogue pops as usual with musical idiom....[The] perfectly shifting plot mechanics hold appeal in an era wanting for screenwriting basics." Release NoteDVD Features: DVD Features: Product NotesWith their overtly comedic follow-up BURN AFTER READING, the Coen Brothers return--about a third of the way--from the dark, dank recesses of the human psyche they traversed in their Oscar-winning NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. For those unfamiliar with the landscape of modern movie psychoanalysis, this puts the fraternal filmmakers square in the cruel, misanthropic, and farcical realm of their 1990s-era body of work, somewhere between the tragicomic crime thriller of FARGO and the disconnected noir-homage anti-storytelling of THE BIG LEBOWSKI, with 2007's NO COUNTRY retroactively adding new nihilism-tinged dimensions of smart skepticism to the proceedings. In a more linear trajectory, BURN AFTER READING also stands as the third entry, after BLOOD SIMPLE and FARGO, in what could be an unofficial Tragedy of Human Idiocy trilogy, wherein characters make the most outlandishly moronic moves to devastating consequences simply by adhering to true human behavior. Indeed, Carter Burwell's emotionally weighty score, which washes over biting scenes of explosive, anesthetizing belly laughs, is very reminiscent of his FARGO work. If You Enjoy "Burn After Reading (DVD)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Burn After Reading (DVD)"There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review!
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