this story of magic, madness and metempsychosis will have you feeling like a rabbit trying to puzzle out what exactly is going on as wilder wolves circle and headlights career toward you out of the darkness.
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Inland Empire (2006)
70 %
Reviews Counted: 96 Fresh: 67 Rotten:29 Average Rating: 7/10
Consensus:
Typical David Lynch fare: fans of the director will find Inland Empire seductive and deep. All others will consider the heady surrealism impenetrable and pointless.
Rated: 15
Runtime: 2 hrs 59 mins
Theatrical Release: 09-03-2007
Synopsis: With INLAND EMPIRE, David Lynch--creator of such mind-bending works as ERASERHEAD and LOST HIGHWAY--delivers his most avant-garde, abstract, and impenetrable vision yet. A three-hour fever nightmare of a motion picture, INLAND EMPIRE takes the basic structure of Lynch's 2001... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Laura Dern, Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton, Scott Coffey
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Top Critic
It's very possibly a work of genius. It could also be the most pretentious pile of garbage ever to make the big screen. But one thing it isn't is unoriginal. If nothing else, the man should be applauded for that.
03/30/07
As opaque a movie as I've ever seen, yet riveting or hypnotic in a way that makes you feel not that you've seen it, but that you've dreamt it.
03/17/07
The great eroto-surrealist David Lynch has gone truffling for another imaginary orifice of pleasure, with results that are fascinating, sometimes very unwholesome, and always enjoyable.
03/10/07
Top Critic
Whether shattering or boring, you’ll still have your eyes wide, wide open from begin to end.
03/08/07
Top Critic
A must-see for Lynch fans, this is unlike anything else you'll see this year and if you can make it through the lengthy running time the rewards are considerable. A masterpiece (probably).
03/08/07
A dazzling and exquisitely original riddle as told by an enigma, featuring a superb, multi-layered performance by Laura Dern.
03/07/07
Top Critic
The man's still a genius; he just needs to be more ruthless in the editing suite.
03/06/07
Top Critic
David Lynch again deploys his genius in all its infuriating impenetrability.
12/30/06
A crazy midnight roller coaster ride to Lynchland. A movie you might half dream through an all night marathon of noir and slasher films, your heart pumping with caffeine.
04/13/08
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11/24/07
While it is not nearly as good as Mulholland Drive, this latest complex concoction is fascinating in parts; even if you don't understand it
11/09/07
Inland Empire is about the effects of movies themselves - the way they change us, inform our goals, and impact our self-image.
09/04/07
It's an abstract jazz riff, it's a painting, it's a monster movie and a musical and a psychodrama and an ellipsis made of black holes.
08/25/07
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08/23/07
It is challenging but simultaneously exhilarating as we travel through this never-waking nightmare.
08/09/07
Sprawls onto the screen as if it had escaped directly from within David Lynch's mind, not like an alien creature let off its leash for the first time.
07/03/07
...ideal for those who thought [David Lynch's] Mulholland Drive was too simple and straightforward...
06/04/07
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