Burn After Reading (2008)

[Movie -- / Day 58]

Almost as good on the second viewing as the first.

My rating: 7.8 / 10
IMDB rating: 7.4 / 10
Running time: 96 mins
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Burn After Reading (2008)

[Movie 77 / Day 45]


The new Coen brothers movie is an excellent tale of deception and paranoia. It's too complicated a story to describe now, I've drunk far too much, but suffice it to say, it's brilliant.

I especially loved George Clooney and John Malkovich, both of whom were excellent.

Far more enjoyable than No Country For Old Men (which was pretty good), this has a fair amount of comedy in it (like Oh Brother Where Art Thou).

My rating: 8.0 / 10
IMDB rating: 7.4 / 10
Running time: 96 mins
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Syriana (2005)

[Movie 56 / Day 34]


So many characters and so many location jumps (some subtitled, some not) meant I actually had difficulty following this. Maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention or wasn't in the right mood for something as heavy as this, but I just found it dull, dull, dull. Well acted, etc, just meh.

My rating: 5.0 / 10
IMDB rating: 7.1 / 10
Running time: 126 mins
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