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Burn After Reading (2008) poster
2008
global pct
46.3

Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s

Burn After Reading

Scored from 569 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

46.3%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
51.4%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
37.2%
AI-adjusted percentile
569 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A CIA analyst is fired and becomes increasingly paranoid after a marital dispute. Two dim-witted gym employees find a CD containing classified information and attempt to use it for blackmail, setting off a chain of mistaken identities, misunderstandings, and escalating chaos.

Burn After Reading is a 2008 comedy, crime and thriller film. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen directed it. It is rated R. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy. The runtime is 96 minutes. It was made in the United States. It stars George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt.

569 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 582 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 18,096 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.

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Is Burn After Reading (2008) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers
569

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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