Is Barton Fink actually good?

Barton Fink sits in the 78.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 78.7% of them.

How does Barton Fink compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Barton Fink lands in the 79.0% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Barton Fink's score based on?

217 calibrated reviewers stand behind Barton Fink's score.

1991

global pct

78.7

Film · 1991 · Films · 1990s

Barton Fink

Name: Barton Fink
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1991

Scored from 217 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

78.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

79.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

95.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

217 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1941, an idealistic New York playwright is lured to Hollywood to write a wrestling picture for a bullying studio mogul. Holed up in a strange, decaying hotel and crippled by writer's block, he strikes up an uneasy friendship with the gregarious traveling salesman next door, as increasingly bizarre and nightmarish events close in around him.

Barton Fink (1991) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and thriller genres. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 217 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 221 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,490 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.