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'Burn After Reading' goes for laughs

Coen brothers fans high off the magnificence of "No Country For Old Men" will probably be looking to the Coens' latest movie, hoping for more of the same. Or at least more of something brilliant. But "Burn After Reading," a decidedly light counterpoint to "No Country," while funny (occasionally even divinely funny), is not the same caliber as the Cormac McCarthy adaptation, or "Fargo" or "The Big...

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