‘Burn After Reading’ a familiar form for Coen Brothers

The Coen Brothers blow our minds then blow someone’s brains out in their return to screwy form, “Burn After Reading.” And they do it with an A-list cast.

The prolific filmmakers won Oscars and big bank for last year’s less random, more cohesive variation on their unique sensibility. The tense serial killer thriller “No Country For Old Men” moderated the air of misanthropic mockery that distinguishes their oeuvre from “Raising Arizona” to “Fargo” and beyond. “Men” followed a plausible narrative and was sympathetic toward its flawed characters, at least to its “good guys.”