Nominated for 3 Oscars. 19 wins & 30 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
This creepy satire is full of laughs and flaky twists, but by the end you may still be scratching your head.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
6 Nov 2007
fresh:
Scene after scene is filled with a ferocious strength and humor.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
6 Nov 2007
fresh:
Again the Coens take familiar movie tropes and twist them into something new. This may be their most haunting movie.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
18 Oct 2008
fresh:
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.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
13 Oct 2009
fresh:
It's at its best when young Barton Fink simply stares at a picture of a bathing beauty contemplating the ocean -- a Hollywood dream.