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Aro Recommended Burn After Reading

 

USA 2008, 105 minutes
Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Comedy, Suspense/Crime / Screwball

 

Aroview: Appealing 'dunderhead' comedy from the Coen Brothers that plots an elaborate caper for its A-list ensemble cast, who relish the chance to caricature their own screen personas.

Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand dumb down to play gym instructors who attempt to blackmail bad-tempered ex-CIA beauracrat John Malkovich, whose ice queen wife Tilda Swinton is having an affair with multiple adulteror George Clooney. After the Oscar-lauded NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, this might be 'Coen-lite', but their dialogue always snaps without being too smug, and its too just savvy and sardonic to be written off as mere fluff.

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