Barton Fink is one for the record books.

| Apr 6, 2020

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

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

Scene after scene is filled with a ferocious strength and humor.

| Nov 6, 2007

This creepy satire is full of laughs and flaky twists, but by the end you may still be scratching your head.

| Nov 6, 2007

Somehow everything coheres, thanks to the Coens' superb writing and assured direction, and a roster of marvellous performances. The result works on numerous levels, thrilling the mind, ears and eyes, and racking the nerves.

| Jan 26, 2006

It's an exhilarating original.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 20, 2003

Partly hilarious, partly horrific, totally mesmerizing.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 12, 2001

If Fink lacks cumulative punch, its fighting power is a technical knockout.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

A triumph for the offbeat, grimly funny brothers, it reveals in its mythic fashion the vagaries of the creative process that plague every artist.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Aside from Turturro and Goodman, this movie is chockful of good performances.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It's an assured piece of comic filmmaking.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

There is much in this black Valentine to 40s Hollywood that is hugely enjoyable for the cinema buff: style, wit and in-jokes abound.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B | Jan 1, 1991