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'Burn After Reading': The Coens Serve Up Laughs
The writing/directing team of Joel and Ethan Coen create a laugh-a-minute black comedy that pokes fun at America's surveillance-dominated existence, plastic surgery desires, and all out greed.
'Burn After Reading' is No Lebowskinew
The writing is as solid as you'd hope, though the humor in this story of two bumbling gym employees who accidentally blackmail an ex-CIA agent and immediately get in over their heads with national-security heavies is mostly dry, situational, and low-key.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
09-10-2008 |
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No Exitnew
No Country for Old Men is a showcase of brilliant, minimalist acting, a visual masterpiece and an uncomfortable philosophical challenge.
By the Booknew
Hey, guess what? Evil is real, and random, and without reason, and relentless.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
11-15-2007 |
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Evil Ways
The Coen brothers combine pure thrills with grim philosophy in No Country for Old Men.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
11-15-2007 |
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All the Pretty Carnagenew
Remorseless murder isn't all there is to No Country for Old Men, but it's all anyone seems to care about.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
11-12-2007 |
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'No Country' is a Crime Movie for a World at Warnew
The way the Coen brothers' latest morphs from noir into contemporary-western moral struggle makes it deeper, funnier and even stranger than Fargo.
New York Press |
Armond White |
11-08-2007 |
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The Coen and Cormac Frontier in 'No Country for Old Men'new
The casting is superb, but the notes each of the actors are allowed to search out and discover are what make No Country For Old Men at least within a well-hurled rock's throw of a "masterpiece" as some writers have already gratefully dubbed this glory of pearlescent carborundum.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
11-07-2007 |
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The Coen Brothers Go West
After a string of disappointing projects, Joel and Ethan Coen have hit cinematic paydirt with Cormac McCarthy's 2003 western crime novel No Country for Old Men.
