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Reviews: September 2008 Archives
"Burn After Reading"
By Matt Singer on 09/11/2008
It doesn't make a lot of sense to follow up a movie as dark as "No Country for Old Men" with one as downright silly as "Burn After Reading," which is why it works for the Coen brothers. Joel and Ethan have done this before -- they made "Raising Arizona" after "Blood Simple"; "The Big Lebowski" followed "Fargo" -- and if there's one thing these brothers savor, it's upending their audience's expectations. The only thing people didn't like about the almost uniformly beloved "No Country" was the film's controversial ending and its handling of a sudden off-screen death of one... MORE »
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