This is easily the best film about Hollywood that the Coens made, which is saying something.

| Feb 22, 2024

Barton Fink seems to be the best film of the year... but it dissolves without leaving a trace, turning into the biggest deception of the year. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 8, 2022

It has the best dialogue I have heard in a long time -- witty without being jokey.

| Apr 6, 2022

Ever readable, Barton Fink mixes a fascinating potion of isolation, paranoia, and anxiety, as well as a harsh dose of uncertainty for our unfortunate writer.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

Edgy, innovative, and often ambiguous in its intentions.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 30, 2021

A deep dive into the life of the mind-or at least the minds of Joel and Ethan Coen.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 22, 2021

It's often impossible to tell if we're watching a particularly morbid dark comedy, or a particularly hilarious tragedy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 11, 2020

Barton Fink is one for the record books.

| Apr 6, 2020

In their dark comic masterpiece "Bartin Fink," [The Coens] draw the line between artistic integrity and artistic smugness.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jan 7, 2019

It was like a witty and stylish description of a dripping tap or a damp sock. Dripping taps and damp socks are all very well, I thought to myself at the end of the film, but when it comes to the crunch, who gives a fink?

| Jul 24, 2018

Weird, funny, would-be cult film, filled with its strange spaces and surreal dream logic.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 24, 2017

Part "Eraserhead" and part "Naked Lunch," "Barton Fink" is like whitefish on sand.

| Original Score: B | Feb 14, 2017

It's at its best when young Barton Fink simply stares at a picture of a bathing beauty contemplating the ocean -- a Hollywood dream.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 16, 2013

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

Goes off the deep end.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 4, 2011

Bizarre Hollywood dream factory. Teens only.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Resembles not the artist's churning mind but the filmmakers' conjoined colon

| Nov 15, 2009

Gnomic, claustrophobic, hallucinatory, just plain weird, it is the kind of movie critics can soak up thousands of words analyzing and cinephiles can soak up at least three espressos arguing their way through.

| Oct 13, 2009

Again the Coens take familiar movie tropes and twist them into something new. This may be their most haunting movie.

| Oct 18, 2008

Does cinema get any better than this?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2008