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"2015: 891 2014: 874 2013: 860 2012: 854 2011: 843 2010: 824 2009: 783 No Change "
" The most enjoyable aspect of the Coen Brothers’ snarky, zippy espionage thriller was the performance of Joel’s wife Frances McDormand as the finicky, cosmetically-obsessed gym employee Linda Litzke, who’s only getting involved in the extortion plot to pay for plastic surgery."
"2014: 874 2013: 860 2012: 854 2011: 843 2010: 824 2009: 783 "
"2013: 860 2012: 854 2011: 843 2010: 824 2009: 783 "
"Re-watch - April 1st After lunch I settled in with Burn After Reading, which I haven't watched in a while. It's such an oddball of a film, even among the Coens's filmography. But it focuses on a bunch of well-meaning if misguided fools that fit right in among their other characters. And JK Simmons makes the perfect audience surrogate. I don't feel like this film comes together as well as it aims to, however. At times it feels like it's struggling to juggle all the characters, a feeling reinforc"
"2012: 854 2011: 843 2010: 824 2009: 783 "
“A complete tonal mess that finds the Coen Brothers swinging wildly from wry farce to blood-soaked slapstick to harebrained lampoonery, Burn After Reading is muddled but entertaining enough. It seems that every time the Coens obtain some level of respectability they immediately follow it up with a confused big swing as if to reorientate their misanthropic worldview away from prestige. No Country for Old Men won them a bushel of Oscars, so they called up a bunch of their movie star friends (George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand) for a farce of conspiracy theories and an examination of one man’s grandiose sense of importance. I suppose some of it works, but it also feels like the Coens are aware that Burn After Reading is all over the place as ther” read more