96 minutes

In theaters September 12, 2008

Rating: R, Comedy

You enter to see Burn After Reading. But you exit feeling Burned After Watching.

That's because the latest film from the Coen brothers, despite their usual technical flourishes and a handful of quirky laughs, starts slowly, with what seems a truckload of exposition, and then ends abruptly, prematurely, and unsatisfyingly. Where's the rest of the movie?