Flush with Oscar success, the Coen Brothers are in darkly playful mood for a cockamamie farce that swivels around the memoirs of a disgruntled CIA agent (John Malkovich), his wife (Tilda Swinton), her lover (George Clooney), and a pair of inept blackmailers (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand). But whether their affairs are of national security or an extra-marital nature, it soon becomes clear that this is no country for dumb men. Funny. With menaces.
