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Critic Ian Nathan
rated 8

If No Country For Old Men was vintage port, Burn After Reading is a shot of tequila: eye watering and hard to swallow, but the after-effect is terrific.

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Critic Keith Phipps
rated 7

Burn's land of the perpetually deluded works as an amusing place to visit, but an even better place to flee.

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Critic Ian Nathan
rated 8

If No Country For Old Men was vintage port, Burn After Reading is a shot of tequila: eye watering and hard to swallow, but the after-effect is terrific.

Read full review at Empire
Critic Keith Phipps
rated 7

Burn's land of the perpetually deluded works as an amusing place to visit, but an even better place to flee.

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Lisa Brygger
rated 5

Coen-drengene er bestemt mestre i det absurde, og Burn After Reading er en burlesk omgang sjov og ballade.

Read full review at Cinemazone
Lollo Hernander
rated 7

Hur har jag kunnat missa den här skruvade pärlan? Lite splittrad i starten gör att man nästan halvvägs in i filmen fortfarande undrar vad man tittar på, men sen sys det ihop väldigt snyggt och roligt. Alla skådisar är grymma, men Clooney, Malkovic...

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Critic Lisa Brygger
rated 5

Coen-drengene er bestemt mestre i det absurde, og Burn After Reading er en burlesk omgang sjov og ballade.

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Critic Jens Peterson
rated 8

Mycket bra skådespelare gör ”Burn after reading” till en njutning.

Read full review at Aftonbladet

Cast & Crew

Ethan Coen
Director
Ethan Coen
Writer
Joel Coen
Director
Joel Coen
Writer
George Clooney
As Harry Pfarrer
Brad Pitt
As Chad Feldheimer
Tilda Swinton
As Katie Cox

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Burn After Reading is a dark comedy-thriller film directed by the Coen Brothers, following the story of a group of gym employees who stumble upon a CD containing sensitive government information. With an all-star cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and John Malkovich, the film takes the audience on a wild ride filled with blackmail, murder, and plenty of chaos. The story begins with Osbourne Cox (Malkovich), a disgraced CIA analyst who quits his job due to a drinking problem and decides to write a memoir. His wife Katie (Tilda Swinton), who is having an affair with Harry Pfarrer (Clooney), a married U.S. Marshal, copies Osbourne's digital financial records and personal files onto a CD-R, which she accidentally leaves on the floor of a local gym. Chad Feldheimer (Pitt) and Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand), two personal trainers at the gym, find the CD and mistakenly believe it contains sensitive government information. They devise a plan to return the disc to Osbourne for a reward but their inept efforts only enrage him. Desperate for money, they try to sell the disc to the Russian embassy, meeting with an official who is later revealed to be a spy for the CIA. Meanwhile, Harry becomes romantically involved with Linda after meeting her on a dating site. When Chad is discovered by Harry in the Cox household, he reflexively kills him, thinking he is a government agent. The CIA headquarters learns that information from Osbourne has been given to the Russian embassy, but they are perplexed because the information is of no particular importance and the perpetrators' motive is unknown. As the events unfold, Linda returns to the embassy, believing that the Russians have abducted Chad, but they deny this and inform her that the contents of CD are worthless. In a desperate attempt to find Chad and rectify the situation before it's too late; she convinces Ted (Jeffrey DeMunn), Hardbodies' manager, to help her break into the Cox household. With a twisted plot, memorable characters, and plenty of unexpected twists; Burn After Reading delivers an unpredictable thrill ride until the very end.

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