Burn After Reading (2008), is another black comedy from the off beat Coen Brothers.Like my fav Fargo (1996), this latest, complicated tale of fate and greed is filled to the gunnels with actors playing against type. Nearly everyone is unlikable, shallow and selfish; from George Clooney 's childish serial shagger, to Tilda Swinton's vile, snobbish doctor, all the characters exhibit all those negative human frailties that the Coens' love so very much to capture in their films.The film surprised me, as did Brad Pitt (one of my least favourite actors)- he was wonderfully funny as a thick as pig-shit gym bunny, a standout performance in one of the Coen Brothers best films (with the exception of No Country for Old Men (2007)
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