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02/24/07
Inland Empire (2006)
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Reviews Counted:98
Fresh:70
Rotten:28
Average Rating:7.1/10
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.
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... [More]
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Laura Dern, Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton
Director: David Lynch
Reviews for Inland Empire
Inland Empire might just be the funniest movie of the year. Or maybe its the most horrifying. Trust me: It’s difficult to tell.
02/21/07
Imagine what the cinema world would be like if more great directors threw caution to the wind and followed their artistic vision.
02/19/07
You say 'impenetrable', I say 'thrilling'; let's call the whole thing a near-masterpiece.
02/15/07
Lynch's brilliant and bizarre films have often come to us as a puzzle wrapped in an enigma, but his latest is enshrouded with two layers of 'who cares?'
02/15/07
In his 36 years of filmmaking, David Lynch has never been more fearless or more fearsome...Inland Empire brims with surprising and scary images.
02/10/07
A free-fall plunge through David Lynch's imagination, a curious and often astonishing place. The film is dazzling and bewildering in equal measure.
02/09/07
With Inland Empire, the whole thing feels stuck in Lynch's noggin.
02/08/07
Undeniably, Inland Empire has moments that seem like transmissions from cinema’s future.
02/03/07
Lynch has fully taken control of the filmmaking apparatus... and you can feel that sense of freedom for commercial concerns in virtually every frame.
02/03/07
It's the best new movie I've seen in over a year.
02/01/07
Inland Empire is full of good and bad girls, but [Lynch] gives this obsession an interesting spin by having most of them played by the same actress.
01/26/07
While you suspect Lynch's digital video acumen will flower into something extraordinary in coming projects, this one's intermittently extraordinary at best.
01/26/07
... the avant-gardism feels less born of Lynch's bizarre brain than there to prop up his reputation.
01/26/07
Lynch obviously loves to mess with our minds, but if you try wading to the bottom of this thing you'll hit your head on the floor.
01/25/07
Inland Empire is essentially a journey inside David Lynch's mind, sometimes burrowing very deep indeed. Nobody else could have made this film; nobody else should try.
01/19/07
Those willing to give themselves up to Lynch's sensibilities will find a hypnotic and richly textural experience that challenges them to make their own connections through the imagery, echoes of repeated dialogue and metaphor.
01/18/07
It's a bit like watching the final 40 minutes of Mulholland stretched to three hours and filmed with digital-video cameras available at a Circuit City near you.
01/17/07
Lynch is so singular a talent and so pure a filmmaker that he almost can't help but produce moments that rattle your preconceptions of what a movie can be, and that's always a treat.
01/12/07
It's worth watching as yet another example of Lynch's extraordinary collaboration with Dern. It may be overstating things to call her performance heroic, but it's nothing if not brave, as she dares to embody Lynch's most brutal impressions of Hollywood.
01/11/07
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