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Coen Comedy Goes Gently

Joel and Ethan Coen give us “Burn After Reading,” a salute to stupidity in a post-modern, post-stupid world. The film, almost as disjointed as the premise, joins meandering chaos with bitter cultural observations and a few genuinely sad glances to the side. Not funny so much as apropos, “Burn” is ignorable in guise and exorable in geist. Like a lost CD of Agency memoirs, you can take it or leave it.

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