Mulholland Dr. (2001)
81 %
Reviews Counted: 148 Fresh: 120 Rotten:28 Average Rating: 7.4/10
Consensus:
Mulholland Drive makes little sense, even for a Lynch film, but its dreamlike imagery is mesmerizing, and Watts delivers a great performance.
Runtime: 2 hrs 27 mins
Theatrical Release: Oct 8, 2001 Limited
Box Office: $7,077,663
Synopsis: David Lynch strikes again with this literal nightmare of a motion picture--a brilliant, scathing, hysterical, and haunting ode to Hollywood. In the film, a mysterious dark-haired woman (Laura Elena Harring) emerges from an accident with a purse full of cash and a head full of amnesia.... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Laura Harring, Naomi Watts, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Robert Forster
Director: David Lynch
Screenwriter: Joyce Eliason, David Lynch
Producer: Mary Sweeney, Alain Sarde, Neal Edelstein, Michael Polaire
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti
Screenwriter: Joyce Eliason, David Lynch
Producer: Mary Sweeney, Alain Sarde, Neal Edelstein, Michael Polaire
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti
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As moviemaking -- as pure abstract art writ large -- this is a classic, a thing of dark mystifying beauty.
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08/25/08
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06/19/08
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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; it also put Naomi Watts on the map
10/20/06
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06/24/06
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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.
12/06/04
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02/25/04
Once the film has its claws dug into you or has inveigled you via its seductive scent there is no way for it to relinquish its grasp, and Lynch wouldn’t have it any other way.
02/21/04
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12/15/03
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12/15/03
Go for the performances and the photography, but don't talk about the film over coffee afterwards - you could still be ordering triple espressos the next morning.
03/26/03
A Sapphic Nancy Drew Mystery on the Lost Highway ... When it comes to Lynch, the journey is always more interesting than the destination
03/19/03
...A dreamy, nightmarish, highly contemplative piece of celluloid that, while it will certainly not appeal to everyone, is just the kind of thing critics love: something different.
02/08/03
Another strange and twisted film from the bizarre mind of David Lynch.
01/29/03
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