The Word On... Burn After Reading

"A very complex array of stories that are somehow very easy to follow, and are also very satisfying and funny." - www.onesentencefilmreviews.blogspot.com

"Here's the right word to describe Joel and Ethan Coen's star-studded, pack-of-maroons spy comedy 'Burn After Reading': it's patchy. Of course, that sounds like I'm dismissing it, but I don't exactly mean it that way. The film is hilarious in patches, shocking in patches, utterly convincing in patches and close to brilliant in patches." - Andrew O'Hehir, www.salon.com

"The final scene, which makes the end of 'No Country For Old Men' look indulgent, concludes it all with a shrug, as if the silliness could stop whenever, so it might as well stop now. Which is fine. The film's land of the perpetually deluded works as an amusing place to visit, but an even better place to flee." - Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com

"This is Bush's America writ large, as the triumph of blinkered idiocy. So chuckle away, by all means – but also watch this film with open eyes, and you might just begin to suspect that the absurd collateral damage on show in the movie is a worrying reflection of the world that we all live in, where the dumb lead the dumber." - Anton Bitel, www.eyeforfilm.co.uk