1. Certainly not for everyone, but if you're looking for something different, something outrageously fascinating, something daring and open-ended, this is it.
2. It's an assured piece of comic filmmaking.
3. Fascinating in a creepy way.
4. Bizarre Hollywood dream factory. Teens only.
5. If Fink lacks cumulative punch, its fighting power is a technical knockout.
6. Very strange but supremely well-crafted.
7. There is much in this black Valentine to 40s Hollywood that is hugely enjoyable for the cinema buff: style, wit and in-jokes abound.
8. A triumph for the offbeat, grimly funny brothers, it reveals in its mythic fashion the vagaries of the creative process that plague every artist.
9. The Coen brothers are among the most eclectic filmmakers around.
10. The Coens have never been more literate, more creative, or more ... well ... weird! (But weird in a very good way.)
What is the consensus?
Twisty and unsettling, the Coen brothers' satirical tale of a 1940s playwright struggling with writer's block is packed with their trademark sense of humor and terrific performances from its cast.