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David Lynch's relatively straight second feature finds an admirable synthesis of compassion and restraint in treating its subject, and features outstanding performances by John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins.
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It is an absorbing and satisfying drama, and Hurt's Merrick is very powerful. March 12, 2020 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
It is an absorbing and satisfying drama, and Hurt's Merrick is very powerful.
Peter Bradshaw
Many Lynchian tropes are here, from a sense of foreboding to a fascination with the grotesque, in terms of Merrick and outsiders' reactions to him. June 14, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Many Lynchian tropes are here, from a sense of foreboding to a fascination with the grotesque, in terms of Merrick and outsiders' reactions to him.
Ed Potton
This is a tale of redemption and transcendence, of the hunchback of London Hospital, of the noble phantom who wanted to go to the opera, of Beauty and the Beast. April 22, 2014 | Full Review…
This is a tale of redemption and transcendence, of the hunchback of London Hospital, of the noble phantom who wanted to go to the opera, of Beauty and the Beast.
Richard Corliss
Lynch's powerful depiction of Merrick (played by John Hurt) moves a viewer from revulsion and fear to empathy and tenderness. That's the very movement of the story itself. April 22, 2014 | Full Review…
Lynch's powerful depiction of Merrick (played by John Hurt) moves a viewer from revulsion and fear to empathy and tenderness. That's the very movement of the story itself.
Richard Brody
The picture itself is a strange trade-off between Lynch's personal themes -- the night world of obscure, disturbing sexual obsessions -- and the requirements of a middlebrow message movie. April 30, 2008 | Full Review…
The picture itself is a strange trade-off between Lynch's personal themes -- the night world of obscure, disturbing sexual obsessions -- and the requirements of a middlebrow message movie.
Dave Kehr
Director David Lynch has created an eerily compelling atmosphere in recounting a hideously deformed man's perilous life in Victorian England. April 30, 2008 | Full Review…
Director David Lynch has created an eerily compelling atmosphere in recounting a hideously deformed man's perilous life in Victorian England.
Variety Staff
With The Elephant Man, Lynch asserts his unique brand of empathetic storytelling - one that always balances the light with the dark, the good with the evil. October 13, 2020 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
With The Elephant Man, Lynch asserts his unique brand of empathetic storytelling - one that always balances the light with the dark, the good with the evil.
Sean Mulvihill
Following his startling debut with Eraserhead, David Lynch retained that picture's industrial imagery, unnerving sound design, and oddball atmosphere and layered them over this rich story. October 13, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Following his startling debut with Eraserhead, David Lynch retained that picture's industrial imagery, unnerving sound design, and oddball atmosphere and layered them over this rich story.
Matt Brunson
It's equal parts scary and sad - a Frankenstein's monster that can garner both fright and sympathy. September 6, 2020 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
It's equal parts scary and sad - a Frankenstein's monster that can garner both fright and sympathy.
Mike Massie
This is by far the most conventional of David Lynch's films, and thus perhaps it is the easiest with which to demonstrate his immense skill at narrative story-telling. July 4, 2020 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
This is by far the most conventional of David Lynch's films, and thus perhaps it is the easiest with which to demonstrate his immense skill at narrative story-telling.
Grant Watson
Flawless interpretation of the hit stage play about a Victorian Era gent living with a confronting physical affliction. April 17, 2020 | Full Review…
Flawless interpretation of the hit stage play about a Victorian Era gent living with a confronting physical affliction.
Leigh Paatsch
Director David Lynch does a great job, John Hurt is completely committed, and the mise-en-scène is excellent. [Full Review in Spanish] August 15, 2019 | Full Review…
Director David Lynch does a great job, John Hurt is completely committed, and the mise-en-scène is excellent. [Full Review in Spanish]
Jesús Fernández Santos
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