A free-fall plunge through David Lynch's imagination, a curious and often astonishing place. The film is dazzling and bewildering in equal measure.
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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:Dec 6, 2006 Limited
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
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Reviews for Inland Empire
Top CriticIt's the best new movie I've seen in over a year.
02/01/07
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
David Lynch slingshots audiences to the dark side of the moon with a three-hour nightmare of a vision that single-handedly returns him to the forefront of filmmakers.
12/11/06
An interminable bore.
10/30/06
Top CriticShe’s a wife in the suburbs. She’s a whore. She’s a damsel in distress. She’s everything but an actress.
12/15/06
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.
06/13/07
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
An invitation to give up all the stories you tell yourself about logic, time, and understandable characters and enter the Lynchian world of mysteries where the refreshing password is "don't know."
10/07/06
The way to watch it is to skip uneasily along its surface and steel yourself for those moments when Lynch pulls you into the vortex. More than any working filmmaker, he knows the dreamlike power of undertow.
12/08/06
Top CriticInland Empire is self-indulgent and overlong and guaranteed to try the patience of all but the most devoted Lynch fan. But for all that I don’t regret having spent three hours wallowing in its eccentricity.
03/02/07
This time Lynch has really lost his bananas, and the grapefruits aren't looking too ripe either.
12/06/06
Whether shattering or boring, you’ll still have your eyes wide, wide open from begin to end.
03/08/07
David Lynch's Inland Empire, which runs 172 minutes, keeps collapsing in on itself.
11/25/08
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
Something like an avant-garde telling of the myth of Eros and Psyche.
04/26/07
Every time I think about it, it becomes harder to get it out of my own head.
12/19/06
...The film, which begins promisingly, disappears down so many rabbit holes (one of them involving actual rabbits) that eventually it just disappears for good.
12/15/06
Top Critic...I prefer my Lynch artistically shackled by the restraints of a film camera.
12/05/06
David Lynch again deploys his genius in all its infuriating impenetrability.
12/30/06
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