It's funny\, sometimes delightful\, someti mes a little sad\, with dialogue that sounds perfectly logical until you l isten a little more carefully and realize all of these people are mad. Rog er Ebert https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/burn-after-reading-2008
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The brilliantly contrived plot is in the manner of classical farce
but it leads to mayhem on a massive scale that escalates from a broken nos
e to an accidental killing\, butchery by axe\, and execution by CIA gunmen
. It's the ingenuity of it all that holds the audience (along with the per
formances) rather than any succession of laugh-aloud gags. Phillip French\
, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/oct/19/comedy- coenbrothers<
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As it is\, the Coens have constructed\, with the aid of some
of the best players in the business\, a comedy that\, like those other br
others called Marx\, is spitefully able to make monkeys of practically eve
rybody Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard.
Burn After Rea
ding is a blackly comic illustration of Murphy's Law\, set in the Washingt
on world of CIA espionage\, and populated with a cast of delusional dunces
who are a wonder to behold. David Ansen Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/coen-brothe
rs-latest-dark- \;comedy88973 \;