Inland Empire Reviews
Common Sense Media
Trippy, twisty thriller is totally out to Lynch.
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| Original Score: 2/5
ColeSmithey.com
The three-hour movie is at once inscrutable and deeply satisfying for its daring high wire act of narrative illusion and passionately charged emotions.
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| Original Score: B+
Slant Magazine
David Lynch's Inland Empire, which runs 172 minutes, keeps collapsing in on itself.
Eye for Film
While the narrative is away with the bunnies, as a mood piece Lynch scores a slam dunk.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Beyond Hollywood
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.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's a movie spent inside Lynch's complicated head.
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| Original Score: A
Urban Cinefile
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
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Inland Empire is about the effects of movies themselves - the way they change us, inform our goals, and impact our self-image.
eFilmCritic.com
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.
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| Original Score: 5/5
DVD Review
It is challenging but simultaneously exhilarating as we travel through this never-waking nightmare.
Stranger Song
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.
Film4
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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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Sacramento News & Review
...ideal for those who thought [David Lynch's] Mulholland Drive was too simple and straightforward...
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| Original Score: 2/5
Sacramento Bee
It's also too long and too reminiscent of Lynch's other work. But die-hard fans will find things to like.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
RogerEbert.com
Inland Empire opens and contracts in your imagination while you watch it -- and you're still watching it well after it's left the screen. It's a long but thoroughly absorbing three hours.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Top Critic
Jam! Movies
Suffice to say that three hours of hallucinatory audacity passes a lot faster than you might expect.
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| Original Score: 4/5
A bucket of Lynchian leftovers, stirred slightly and left to ferment in the dark.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Film Freak Central
Something like an avant-garde telling of the myth of Eros and Psyche.
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| Original Score: 4/4
