Burn After Reading Review Part 2

With Burn After Reading the Coen brothers finds room for George Clooney, Brad Pitt and John Malkovich - along with

Tilda Swinton who, improbable as it may seem after all those years slogging it out for low-budget avant-gardists

like Derek Jarman, Sally Potter and John Maybury, is now supping at the high table of Hollywood aristocracy. And the

Coens themselves are new enough to the big leagues for them to still feel they are blinking owlishly in the

spotlight.

The film itself may be a bit of an afterthought down here on the Lido. Clocking in at a crisp 95 minutes, Burn After

Reading is a tightly wound, slickly plotted spy comedy that couldn't be in bigger contrast to the Coens' last film,

the bloodsoaked, brooding No Country for Old Men. Burn, in comparison, is bit of a bantamweight: fast moving, lots

of attitude, and uncorking a killer punch when it can.[Guardian]