cinematical.com - 9/6/2008
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When the worlds of Washington, DC political intrigue, infidelity, fitness centers and internet dating intersect and collide in a darkly hilarious fashion, you must be watching a film by the Coen brothers. Burn After Reading , Joel and Ethan Coen's follow-up to last year's critically ...
imdb.com - 9/2/2008
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imdb.com —
Another Hit from the genius of the Coens.
, 4 September 2008 9/10 There's a point in
this movie that George Clooney's character, Harry Pfarrer shows Frances McDormand's character Linda Litzke something that we've seen him working on for about half the ...
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Burn After Reading (2008)
apple.com - 9/9/2008
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apple.com —
World-premiering as the opening-night film of the 2008
Venice International Film Festival; a dark spy-comedy from Academy
Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen. An ousted CIA official s (John Malkovich) memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two gym ...
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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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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 ...
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Have you seen the latest hilarious film by the Coen Brothers? Whether you have or not, you can be the winner of a Burn After Reading DVD! The film stars the comical cast that includes George Clooney, Francis McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt.
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movieblog.ugo.com 9/10/2008 — Reviewed by Keith Uhlich
From the start, Burn After Reading shows the Brothers’ Coen in “details” mode, a digitally enhanced Google Maps-esque zoom-in to a Washington D.C. government facility transitioning to a low-angle track behind the click-clacking dress shoes of soon-to-be-fired CIA agent ...
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blog.spout.com 9/10/2008 — From its crash and burn debut at the Venice Film Festival to its slightly more positive but still definitively mixed reception here at the Toronto Film Festival, people who like to spend a lot of time bitching have spent a lot of time bitching that the Coen Brothers ‘ Burn After ...
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getthebigpicture.net 1/2/2009 — It is the most profane and versatile word in the English language, and based on the Coen Brothers' 'Burn After Reading,' John Malkovich is its master.
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