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Mulholland Drive (2001)

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Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 151
Fresh: 123 | Rotten: 28

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: 33
Fresh: 29 | 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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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

R, 2 hr. 27 min.

Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Special Interest

Joyce Eliason, David Lynch

Apr 9, 2002

$7.1M

Universal Focus

Cast

All Critics (171) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (127) | Rotten (31) | DVD (39)

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 | Comment
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 | Comment
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 | Comment
Globe and Mail
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A movie to savour.

October 26, 2001 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
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 Comment
New Republic
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Mulholland Drive makes movies feel alive again.

October 19, 2001 Comment
Rolling Stone
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Fascinating movie for adults only.

December 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
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 | Comment
Suite101.com

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 | Comment
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 Source: Film4 | Comment

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)

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

June 18, 2006 Full Review Source: Cinemania | Comment

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 | Comment
Looking Closer

As the camera lingers over objects, bathing them with faux-significance, Lynch ends up selling more red herrings than a fishmarket

August 14, 2004 Comment
Reel.com
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Audience Reviews for Mulholland Drive

A naive would-be actress from Ontario meets and falls for a knockout amnesiac; impenetrable dream sequences and reality shifts follow. Beautiful confusion.

December 12, 2007
366weirdmovies
Greg S

Super Reviewer

One of my all time favorites. Llorando.

October 29, 2011
Joseph Brightly

Super Reviewer

    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 (9 months 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 (9 months 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 (9 months ago)

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January 14, 2010:
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Foreign Titles

  • Mulholland Drive - Straße der Finsternis (DE)
  • El camino de los sueños (ES)
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