'Burn After Reading' web reviews
Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 10:36PM | By
Franck Tabouring 
Joel and Ethan Coen are finally back in action, and while I have not had the chance yet to see "Burn After Reading," I have to admit I am really looking forward to it. Starring Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney and John Malkovich, among others, this silly comedy centers on two gym teachers who stumble across and then try to sell a CIA agent's secret memoirs. Let's see what the online film fans have to say about it:
• Josh Tyler at Cinema Blend: "More than anything, Burn feels like the Coen brothers trying to re-create the lightning in a bottle magic of The Big Lebowski by taking a scattershot approach to comedy writing."
• 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."
• Brian Orndorf at Collider: "The picture is quick with brutality as much as it is with wit, requiring more sensitive viewers to buckle up extra tightly to absorb a Coen specialty: the rope-a-dope, speed-of-light switch from bellylaughs to pure revulsion."
• Brad Brevet at RopeOfSilicon: "As always is the case with the Coens, the writing is tight and the film bookends itself extremely well."
• Latino Review's Ron Henriques: "Perhaps another polish on the screenplay or further development of the characters would have given the film that classic-in-the making feeling we experienced when viewing many of their previous pictures for the first time."
Convinced? The thing with Joel and Ethan Coen is... you either love them, or you don't. Stay tuned for my review, which I will post within the next two days.











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