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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.
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
4 December 1970, Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
17 May 1959, Rochester, New York, USA
4 May 1947, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
9 November 1977, San Diego, California, USA
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
Burn After Reading is a piffle, but it's a savagely amusing one.
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.
October 14, 2012
A comedy so stupid, it doesn't realise it's a comedy. If intelligence is relative, then ignorance is bliss.
October 21, 2014
It might be the same old song, but I could watch these guys play it over and over again.
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.
November 07, 2008
, Frances McDormand might get nominated for an Academy Award in a supporting role. She was great.
July 15, 2014
Seldom has a comedy about such thoroughly dumb individuals been so engaging, or so insightful.
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.
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.
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.
August 28, 2016
Yet again the Coens parade a carnival of stupidity before us, another cavalcade of caricatured schmucks, imbeciles and idiots.