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
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The result's mostly empty at heart and hollow on top. Full Review |
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Even the title is a letdown, somehow. Full Review |
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 3/4 |
This winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or is a lunatic road movie seething with the same dark intensity that animates director Lynch's earlier work. Full Review |
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Joltingly violent, wickedly funny and rivetingly erotic. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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4/5 |
It's not a pleasant film by any definition, and it's not remotely for everyone, but it's true to Lynch's vision. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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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 Full Review |
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Funny, scary and brilliantly cinematic. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Not for the weak of heart, one of the best Lynchian outings with some fantastically memorable dialogue. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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2.5/5 |
Wild at Heart feels belabored, and it lacks the resonance and power with which the best, most unfiltered passages of Lynch’s work vibrate. Full Review |
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4/5 |
David Lynch does it again.....a hot, heavy, hellish movie
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When [Lynch is] on track, though, the film shines with a gaudy beauty. Full Review |
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The film takes its protagonists’ twisted, perverse subconscious as its reality: a world of circus freak hitmen, trailer trash Wicked Witches, and, well, Crispin Glover. Full Review |
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David Lynch at his cracked best Full Review |
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3/5 |
A strange and compelling road movie as imagined by writer and director David Lynch. Full Review |
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