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Barton Fink (1991)

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All Time

of 190,179

495

1990's

of 24,698

59

1991

of 4,202

6
Comedy
- Comedy All Time
  
  of 36,566
  
  76
  
  Comedy of 1991
  
  of 217
  
  1
  
  Comedy of the 1990's
  
  of 3,182
  
  5
Drama
- Drama All Time
  
  of 38,020
  
  291
  
  Drama of 1991
  
  of 275
  
  3
  
  Drama of the 1990's
  
  of 4,160
  
  40
Thriller
- Thriller All Time
  
  of 7,016
  
  113
  
  Thriller of 1991
  
  of 91
  
  2
  
  Thriller of the 1990's
  
  of 1,628
  
  13

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Barton Fink (1991) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars

Overall Rating:3.1309

Avg Critic Score:3.0435

Barton Fink (1991) Movie Reviews

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filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)

That "Barton Fink feeling" is all over the Coen brothers movie, a modern classic that both celebrates and damns the Golden Age of Hollywood. ...read the complete Barton Fink movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)

Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)

Partly hilarious, partly horrific, totally mesmerizing. ...read the complete Barton Fink movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)

Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)

Wrapped in plain brown paper and no bigger than a typically swelled Hollywood head, the box looks ordinary. It's not, of course. ...read the complete Barton Fink movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)

Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)

Stimulating entertainment, as rigorously challenging and painfully funny as anything the Coens have done. But it's necessary to meet the Coens halfway. If you don't, Barton Fink is an empty exercise that will bore you breathless. ...read the complete Barton Fink movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

A black comedy in the tradition of David Lynch, Luis Bunuel and the Coens themselves...an assured piece of comic filmmaking. ...read the complete Barton Fink movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

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Washington Post (Rita Kempley)

What "Raising Arizona" was to baby lust, "Barton Fink" is to writer's block -- a rapturously funny, strangely bittersweet, moderately horrifying and, yes, truly apt description of the condition and its symptoms....read the complete Barton Fink (1991) review at Washington Post (Rita Kempley)

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filmcritic.com

That "Barton Fink feeling" is all over the Coen brothers movie, a modern classic that both celebrates and damns the Golden Age of Hollywood. One of the Coens' most play-like movies, John Turturro stars in a career-making role as an angst-ridden supporter...read the complete Barton Fink (1991) review at filmcritic.com

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DVDRAMA

L'image de Barton Fink fait trop vidéo et l'on a vraiment trop l'impression d'être face à un transfert numérique - l'aspect argentique propre à tout bon transfert étant ici le plus souvent absent. De plus, la compression n'est pas toujours optimale...read the complete Barton Fink (1991) review at DVDRAMA

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The New Yorker (Terrence Rafferty)

It feels thin. It's an empty tour de force, and what's dismaying about the picture is that the filmmakers... seem inordinately pleased with its hermetic meaninglessness....read the complete Barton Fink (1991) review at The New Yorker (Terrence Rafferty)

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F5 (Wichita, KS) (Jake Euker)

The worst of the Coens' genre-ransacking; mean and self-congratulatory....read the complete Barton Fink (1991) review at F5 (Wichita, KS) (Jake Euker)

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