Osbourne Cox, a Balkan expert, resigned from the CIA because of a drinking problem, so he begins a memoir. His wife wants a divorce and expects her lover, Harry, a philandering State Department marshal, to leave his wife. A CD-ROM falls out of a gym bag at a Georgetown fitness center. Two employees there try to turn it into cash: Linda, who wants money for cosmetic surgery, and Chad, an amiable goof. Information on the disc leads them to Osbourne who rejects their sales pitch... (Full plot summary below)
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Osbourne Cox, a Balkan expert, resigned from the CIA because of a drinking problem, so he begins a memoir. His wife wants a divorce and expects her lover, Harry, a philandering State Department marshal, to leave his wife. A CD-ROM falls out of a gym bag at a Georgetown fitness center. Two employees there try to turn it into cash: Linda, who wants money for cosmetic surgery, and Chad, an amiable goof. Information on the disc leads them to Osbourne who rejects their sales pitch; then they visit the Russian embassy. To sweeten the pot, they decide they need more of Osbourne's secrets. Meanwhile, Linda's boss likes her, and Harry's wife leaves for a book tour. All roads lead to Osbourne's house.
Leave your thoughts about Burn After Reading.
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelDuane DudekDespite their best efforts, the film moves in fits and starts. Burn After Reading bounces; it just never gets rolling. |
| Sydney Morning HeraldSandra HallThe whole thing is a triumphant exercise in the art of silliness for its own sake. |
| Courier Mail (Australia)Des PartridgeThe performances are altogether delightful. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesA beautifully inhuman spy farce in which nobody amounts to anything more than their loopy desires. |
| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea Chasean impishly smart film about the stupidity rampant in people who think they are being clever |
| MovieTime, ABC Radio NationalJulie RiggThis is Coen Brothers Lite, and extremely entertaining at that. |
| NewsBlazeKam WilliamsAlternatively mirthful and macabre, while poking fun at both modern mating habits and the paranoia of espionage culture, this sophisticated social satire is a refreshingly-intelligent diversion designed with the more cerebral cineaste in mind. |
| FILMINK (Australia)Peter GalvinBurn After Reading isn't 'cold' or distant -- it's a game, and a good one at that. |
| Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesAfter the portentous "No Country for Old Men," Joel and Ethan Coen return to their trademark brand of cruel, misanthropic farce, and for dark laughs and hurtling narrative momentum this spy caper is their best work since "Fargo." |
| NewsBlazePrairie MillerThe Coen Brothers go undercover creatively for this playful spy comedy, twisting colliding plot schemes and lines alike while juggling online stranger sex and an uncooperative ex-CIA extortion victim with violent tendencies. |
