"If No Country For Old Men was vintage port, Burn After Reading is a shot of tequila," he writes. The film shouldn't work, but it does."Įmpire's Ian Nathan even goes so far as to talk about the film in the same light as its high-profile predecessor. METASCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews See All 63 USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 448 Ratings See All 6. Indeed, the spies and thrills don't add up at all. Burn After Reading revolves around two gym employeesBrad Pitt as hyperactive jock Chad Feldheimer and Frances McDormand as cosmetic-surgery-obsessed Linda Litzkefinding ex-CIA agent. "It is a surreal satire about spy thrillers. "Burn After Reading is a brilliant joke about a staple Hollywood genre," he writes.
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The Times' James Christopher is one of the few major critics to offer the Coens some positivity, although even he has his misgivings. Il est si rare que des stars de ce calibre acceptent de se vautrer à ce point dans la plus parfaite crétinerie (ici George Clooney et Frances McDormand). When the Coen brothers’ Burn After Reading first hit theaters, critics weren’t too impressed. That's long enough for a movie, but this time, I dunno, I thought the end felt like it arrived a little arbitrarily." Published Burn After Reading may not be the most critically acclaimed Coen brothers' movie, but the comedy has excellent performances from its A-list cast. "It's funny, sometimes delightful, sometimes a little sad, with dialogue that sounds perfectly logical until you listen a little more carefully and realise all of these people are mad. I have very limited breasts, a ginormous ass, and I've got this gut that swings back and forth in front of me like a. Linda Litzke : That's right Ted, I would be laughed out of Hollywood. Ted Treffon : I think it's a beautiful - It's not a phony-baloney Hollywood body. Nor is it one of their bewildering excursions off the deep end," writes The Chicago Sun-Times' Roger Ebert. Linda Litzke : I've gone about as far as I can go with this body, Ted.
"This is not a great Coen brothers' film. "It is their worst feature since The Ladykillers, which at least had the excuse of being a remake script they never really intended to make themselves. " Burn After Reading is the Coens' most mediocre film in a long time: a desperately strained black comic farce," he writes.
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