If you enjoyed visiting Fargo with the Coen Brothers, and want to take a darkly funny vacation from No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading is a Washington DC-based delight. While not as effortlessly layered as Fargo, Burn After Reading features a fantastic cast who are clearly having a ball. Like Fargo, Burn After Reading concerns a dumb crime perpetrated by less than bright criminals. Unlike Fargo (or No Country for Old Men, for that matter), there isn’t a moral compass character for you to identify with, which lends the film a feeling of a farce with ...