05 June 2009

Barton Fink (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 1991)

7/10
Probably my least favorite Coen Brothers movie so far (I've only seen Blood Simple, Big Lebowski and NCFOM and they all rank among my favorite movies ever so its stiff competition) but I still liked it. John Goodman was excellent and John Turturro was good even if his character was extremely irritating (the whole point, I suppose). I felt there was a lot of symbolism I was completely missing but then I went on Wikipedia and read that not everything in the movie is supposed to have absolute significance so I felt a bit better about it.

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