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Mulholland Drive (2001)

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Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 153
Fresh: 124 | Rotten: 29

Mulholland Drive makes little sense, even for a Lynch film, but its dreamlike imagery is mesmerizing, and Watts delivers a great performance.

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Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 4

Mulholland Drive makes little sense, even for a Lynch film, but its dreamlike imagery is mesmerizing, and Watts delivers a great performance.

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Average Rating: 3.7/5
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Movie Info

David Lynch wrote and directed this look at two women who find themselves walking a fine line between truth and deception in the beautiful but dangerous netherworld of Hollywood. A beautiful woman (Laura Elena Harring) riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles from the wreck with a head wound, and in time makes her way into an apartment

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Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Special Interest

Joyce Eliason, David Lynch

Apr 9, 2002

$7.1M

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All Critics (174) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (124) | Rotten (29) | DVD (40)

Lynch needs to renew himself with an influx of the deep feeling he has for people, for outcasts, and lay off the cretins and hobgoblins and zombies for a while.

January 22, 2002 Full Review Source: New York Magazine
New York Magazine
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One of the very few movies in which the pieces not only add up to much more than the whole, but also supersede it with a series of (for the most part) fascinating fragments.

November 8, 2001 Full Review Source: New York Observer
New York Observer
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Like Twin Peaks, it keeps spooling out more narrative twists until the ingenious maze turns into an oppressive tangle.

October 28, 2001 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail
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A movie to savour.

October 26, 2001 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
Toronto Star
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Lynch challenges our expectations of narrative and credibility by luxuriating in something else -- the unexplained, the making of no-sense that (he says) underlies life.

October 24, 2001
The New Republic
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Mulholland Drive makes movies feel alive again.

October 19, 2001
Rolling Stone
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It's a big mess! But not in a controlled sense like Lynch's other films.

April 24, 2013 Full Review Source: Film Geek Central
Film Geek Central

Leads us into our own strange need to untangle the spools of film and dream, fiction and truth, protective fantasy and traumatic reality. Lynch uses the twinkling lights and dazzling stars of superficial LA to warp us into a deeper, stranger surreality.

July 24, 2012 Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Fascinating movie for adults only.

December 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Billy Ray Cyrus as an amorous poolman punched by a mobster? David Lynch's commentary on independent filmmaking? Lesbian erotica as sad as it is exaggeratedly hot? Lynch's greatest puzzle box snaps together in sparse, bold, sexy and thrilling fashion.

September 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com
Suite101.com

When directors get you to ponder this much and leave a lasting impression after you've seen a movie of theirs, they have to be doing something right.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Cinema Crazed

As moviemaking -- as pure abstract art writ large -- this is a classic, a thing of dark mystifying beauty.

August 25, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

A summation work at midpoint career, this visually menacing horror picture, which deconstructs Hollywood as the dream factory, continues to explore such Lynchian obsessions as good vs. evil and dreams vs. nightmares.

October 20, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comments (3)
EmanuelLevy.Com

As art, Drive is extraordinary. As a film for general audiences, it's bound to be misunderstood, condemned as pornographic, or exploited for cheap thrills.

December 6, 2004 Full Review Source: Looking Closer
Looking Closer

Once the film has its claws dug into you or has inveigled you via its seductive scent there is no way for it to relinquish its grasp, and Lynch wouldn't have it any other way.

February 21, 2004 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

Go for the performances and the photography, but don't talk about the film over coffee afterwards - you could still be ordering triple espressos the next morning.

March 26, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

A Sapphic Nancy Drew Mystery on the Lost Highway ... When it comes to Lynch, the journey is always more interesting than the destination

March 19, 2003 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

...A dreamy, nightmarish, highly contemplative piece of celluloid that, while it will certainly not appeal to everyone, is just the kind of thing critics love: something different.

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online
Film Quips Online

Another strange and twisted film from the bizarre mind of David Lynch.

January 29, 2003
Cinema Sight

Some very clever experimental cinema in the Lynch vein.

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat
Film Threat

It's a self-indulgent but mostly absorbing meditation about the business of filmmaking, and Lynch spares no egos in this near-parody of the craziness that is Hollywood.

October 21, 2002 Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan
San Diego Metropolitan

Nobody, but nobody, makes movies as glossy, hypnotic, repellant, exciting, annoying, memorable, incoherent and entertaining as writer-director David Lynch.

October 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati Enquirer

My biggest gripe is that this open-ended noir mystery, dark comedy and indictment of Hollywood as morally bankrupt Dream Factory should have felt fresher and been more fun.

October 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review
Sacramento News & Review

A beautiful, woozy mystery for the id... a surrealistic gem whose terrifying visions of despair stick to you like an inescapable night sweat.

September 9, 2002 Full Review Source: Entertainment Today
Entertainment Today

...movies needn't be coherent to be affecting, and the best art provokes emotions not easily rendered in language.

July 26, 2002 Full Review
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

'Every scene groans with oppressive dread and glitters with black humour.'

July 4, 2002 Full Review Source: Teletext
Teletext

Audience Reviews for Mulholland Drive

An aspiring, fresh-faced young actress new in Hollywood discovers a woman in her appartment who is suffering from amnesia and they attempt to discover who she is using only a few slender clues. David Lynch once again delights and exasperates with this beautiful and always intriguing modern noir. It does not surprise me to discover that this was originally intended to be a TV show, as it reminded me a lot of Lynch's classic series Twin Peaks. It is not as baffling as much of Lynch's work, and although there are shades of Lost Highway in that suddenly the characters seem to become someone else, it does have a coherent narrative that explains all (if you were paying VERY close attention!) Lynch uses his trademark intensity of imagery and sound to create an otherwordly feeling, but it is not as sinister as some of his other work and so it's rather more accessible. In fact, the first two acts of the film do seem like just another post-Tarantino mystery thriller, but the finale of the film is quite astonishing. Another stylish and seductive headf*** from the master of the macabre.
December 27, 2006
garyX
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While you watch it, the plot is not very difficult to follow, thanks to the surprising clarity in which the narrative is displayed. But hold on.... If you even try to put the pieces together and create an idea of what exactly happened, that's where Lynch's work gains its reputation for being bafflingly confusing, nonsensical, and feverishly brilliant.
December 15, 2012
Kevin Cookman

Super Reviewer

    1. Cowboy: A man's attitude... a man's attitude goes some ways. The way his life will be. Is that somethin' you agree with?
    2. Adam Kesher: Sure.
    3. Cowboy: Now... did you answer cause you thought that's what I wanted to hear, or did you think about what I said and answer cause you truly believe that to be right?
    4. Adam Kesher: I agree with what you said, truthfully.
    5. Cowboy: What'd I say?
    6. Adam Kesher: Uh... that a man's attitude determines, to a large extent, how his life will be.
    7. Cowboy: So since you agree, you must be someone who does not care about the good life.
    – Submitted by Hriya M (10 months ago)
    1. Adam Kesher: This is the girl.
    – Submitted by Deborah C (15 months ago)
    1. Coco Lenoix: You know, there was a man that lived here once that had a prize-fighting kangaroo. Well, you just wouldn't believe what that kangaroo did to this courtyard!
    – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)
    1. Cowboy: When you see the girl in the picture that was shown to you earlier today, you will say, "this is the girl". The rest of the cast can stay, that's up to you. But that lead girl is "not" up to you. Now you will see me one more time, if you do good. You will see me, two more times, if you do bad. Good night.
    – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)
    1. Cowboy: When you see the girl in the picture that was shown to you earlier today, you will say, "this is the girl". The rest of the cast can stay, that's up to you. But that lead girl is "not" up to you. Now you will see me one more time, if you do good. You will see me, two more times, if you do bad. Good night.
    – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)

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