One of the Reviews

"This is a man practiced in deceit," says one character of another in Burn After Reading. "It's almost his

job." Deceit is very much the job of the new film from Joel and Ethan Coen. It's as if, after winning two fat Oscars

(best picture and director) for their fairly straightforward adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men,

the brothers needed to reassert their old capricious cunning, their weasily larkishness, their independence from

easy acclaim. "Just because you agree with the Academy that we made the best film of 2007," they seem to be warning

their fans, "don't think you're any closer to figuring out our motives. We're still tough to get. Deceit is our job,

our pleasure and your challenge." [Time]