Reviews

Barton has encounters with Hollywood movers and shakers throughout the film where the people Barton meets, particularly a maniacal studio head played by Michael Lerner, who received an Oscar nomination, appear almost insane, but their behavior in this movie is on par with most LA big shots so you ha...

Barton Fink is a masterpiece for the stunning cinematography which really lends itself to the isolation and dissolution that the struggling writer Barton Fink is dealing with.

Not so much just the dialog, which is crisp and tasty, but the actual screenplay..we get loud close ups of a typewriter after Fink ruminates for a long while, we think he is going to work, but alas, it's just a scene change starting with a hum drum office secretary where it's soon revealed, that Bar...

Im going to rate this, because I rate all the movies I watch, but as it should be clear with my above writing, this is going to be a gentle ruling with an allowance of the film to breathe and evolve in my head until I watch it again, and again, and perhaps it wont even extend much in my rating of it...

The Coens wrote this film while suffering writer's block during the writing of Miller's Crossing (which is also one of their very best films, in my opinion) and that's very apparent in this film's plot.