Mulholland Drive (2001)

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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

Peter Rainer

New York Magazine

Top Critic

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

Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

Like Twin Peaks, it keeps spooling out more narrative twists until the ingenious maze turns into an oppressive tangle.

October 28, 2001 Full Review

Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

A movie to savour.

October 26, 2001 Full Review

Peter Howell

Toronto Star

Top Critic

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

Stanley Kauffmann

The New Republic

Top Critic

Mulholland Drive makes movies feel alive again.

October 19, 2001

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

It's a big mess! But not in a controlled sense like Lynch's other films.

April 24, 2013 Full Review

Austin Kennedy

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

Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Fascinating movie for adults only.

December 26, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

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

Nick Rogers

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

Felix Vasquez Jr.

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

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

although Lynch puts in more than one appearance in the extras on disc two, he remains true to past form, speaking only in infuriatingly vague abstractions.

September 25, 2007 Full Review

Anton Bitel

Film4

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 | Comments (3)

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

The Hollywood Dream Factory reimagined as Nightmarish Torture Chamber. Naomi Watts is phenomenol.

June 18, 2006 Full Review

Dan Jardine

Cinemania

• 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 (9 months ago)
• 1. Adam Kesher: This is the girl.
  – Submitted by Deborah C (14 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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