Burn After Reading
A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo doofuses and those in their orbit.
9 January 1955, Detroit, Michigan, USA
5 February 1951, Panama City, Florida, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
4 April 1964, Manchester, Connecticut, USA
23 June 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 November 1936, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
4 May 1947, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
18 March 1947, Rybnik, Slaskie, Poland
31 October 1963, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
27 August 1981
25 January 1946, Portola, California, USA
17 February 1956, Seattle, Washington, USA
15 September 1966, Hastings, Minnesota, USA
27 November 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
October 21, 2014
It might be the same old song, but I could watch these guys play it over and over again.
November 07, 2008
, Frances McDormand might get nominated for an Academy Award in a supporting role. She was great.
September 12, 2008
Burn After Reading is a piffle, but it's a savagely amusing one.
July 15, 2014
Seldom has a comedy about such thoroughly dumb individuals been so engaging, or so insightful.
August 28, 2016
Yet again the Coens parade a carnival of stupidity before us, another cavalcade of caricatured schmucks, imbeciles and idiots.
November 07, 2008
These are functioning morons, they walk and work among us. And they are brilliant and funny and in spite of the screwball-comedy nature of the story, they are completely believable.
October 18, 2008
The Coens are loopy stylists, and it's often amusing to watch this comedy of errors unfold. But after a masterpiece like No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading is classified as disposable.
June 29, 2016
Burn After Reading maintains comic balance, and after so many smart, gutsy Coen movies (many in the note of madcap), that shouldn't be a surprise.
September 28, 2011
A quirky tale of lust, greed, vanity, idiocy and ineptitude that spreads its giggly ripples through the bureaucratic buildings and leafy suburbs of Washington, D.C.
September 12, 2008
On screen, delusional schmoes are more fun than smart people, and in the latest film from Joel and Ethan Coen, the imperious former spook played by John Malkovich accuses his blackmailers...of heading a league of morons.
October 14, 2012
A comedy so stupid, it doesn't realise it's a comedy. If intelligence is relative, then ignorance is bliss.
September 16, 2008
For fans of the Coens... it suggests, especially on the heels of No Country for Old Men, that they have rediscovered their cinematic vision after several lean years.
