When [Lynch is] on track, though, the film shines with a gaudy beauty.
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01/15/05
Wild at Heart (1990)
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Reviews Counted:42
Fresh:27
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In adapting Barry Gifford's colorful novel, David Lynch delivers another jolt of adrenaline to unsuspecting viewers everywhere. WILD AT HEART follows the troubled romance of Sailor (Nicolas Cage)... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover
Director: David Lynch
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Reviews for Wild at Heart
Funny, scary and brilliantly cinematic.
01/26/06
[A] fine example of Lynch's directorial talent.
01/01/00
David Lynch doesn't tell stories as much as he shows hallucinations.
01/01/00
A strange and compelling road movie as imagined by writer and director David Lynch.
08/30/04
Though Miss Dern and Mr. Cage are constantly upstaged by the rest of the movie, they triumph.
05/20/03
Top CriticThe result's mostly empty at heart and hollow on top.
09/17/08
If you go on this journey, send me a postcard -- tell me what you found.
01/10/03
The movie is lurid melodrama, soap opera, exploitation, put-on and self-satire.
01/01/00
Top CriticWild at Heart feels belabored, and it lacks the resonance and power with which the best, most unfiltered passages of Lynch’s work vibrate.
06/12/05
Even the title is a letdown, somehow.
09/17/08
Top CriticThe film takes its protagonists’ twisted, perverse subconscious as its reality: a world of circus freak hitmen, trailer trash Wicked Witches, and, well, Crispin Glover.
01/15/05
It's not a pleasant film by any definition, and it's not remotely for everyone, but it's true to Lynch's vision.
07/23/07
Critics nationally are falling all over themselves over David Lynch's latest movie Wild at Heart. But for me it was neither revealing nor enlightening -- and it certainly wasn't entertaining.
01/01/00
For all its torrid sex play and violence, fire is precisely what Wild at Heart lacks. Instead of being wild at heart, it's empty at heart.
01/01/00
Top CriticAn unforgettable experience.
09/10/02
Lynch's paean to Wizard of Oz divided critics when it premeiered at Cannes, and it never found an audience beyond the helmer's fans who enjoyed the fable's couple (Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern) taking their own Yellow Brick Road in search of the wizard
12/20/06
Not for the weak of heart, one of the best Lynchian outings with some fantastically memorable dialogue.
12/06/05
Barry Gifford's beautifully written picaresque novel about southern lovers on the run, though essentially literary, could have worked as a movie had David Lynch shown some fidelity to the realistic context.
09/17/08
Top CriticJoltingly violent, wickedly funny and rivetingly erotic.
09/17/08
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