Burn After Reading 15, Nationwide Burn After Reading, a 'comedy thriller', is the latest Coen brothers movie, their first after No Country for Old Men, and it is a very, very hard film to like. I wanted to like it, I tried to like it, I strained to like it with all the fibres of my being bar two -- they ...

Joel and Ethan Coen made their mark 24 years ago with the ruthless, low-budget noir thriller Blood Simple and followed it three years later with the comedy Raising Arizona, and by my reckoning five of their 13 films can be categorised as serious and eight as comic. The former, all thrillers of sorts, constitute their finest work - Blood Simple, Miller ...

Joel and Ethan Coen know their idiots. They've written every sort of bonehead, nitwit and lamebrain imaginable in both comic and tragic form in such films as "Raising Arizona," "Fargo," "The Big Lebowski" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Yet they may have topped themselves for ...