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'Burn After Reading'

Rating:

PLOT Two clueless gym employees blackmail a former CIA agent with unintended results. (R)

CAST George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton.

LENGTH 1:36.

PLAYING AT Area theaters.

BOTTOM LINE Another brutal and fitfully hilarious farce from the Coen Brothers, though the nagging nihilism sometimes cancels out the comedy.

No one makes...

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