Movie Reviewed: Burn After Reading
Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen
Date Watched: 30 May 2021
jamesintexas rating: ***1/2
Endless fun. Watching John Malkovich scream and curse, George Clooney sweat and squirm, and Brad Pitt dance to music only he can hear is exactly what I needed today. A reminder of what a great actress Frances McDormand is (and Richard Jenkins for that matter), the loopy, silly plot covers a great deal of ground with the CIA, the Russians, a disc of memoirs, duplicitous marriages and affairs, insecurities and loyalty tests, and ferociously unsettling violence. Well-done.
