The Movie Filter by Jeff Roedel – Burn After Reading? More like Forget After Viewing.

It’s not that I’m still bitter at Joel and Ethan Coen for stealing a Best Picture Oscar from a more deserving, P.T. Anderson, the director Esquire just profiled as America’s most distinctive and important filmmaker for the 21st Century, and one whose epic There Will Be Blood may tower over the nihilistic Tex Mex jibberish found in No Country for Old Men for the rest of my lifetime, it is really that Burn After Reading, a film I was desperate to like beforehand, simply doesn’t work. More…