Arizona Dream Reviews
Though entertaining at times, it's not everyone's dream pic.
| Original Score: B- | Jun 27, 2015
Lewis is only slightly awful, and he and Depp have a nice rapport; Dunaway gives a particularly juicy performance; and Taylor is simply amazing, seemingly able to transform herself physically for every role she plays.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 19, 2009
A peculiar and entrancing gem.
| Jun 19, 2009
Kusturica grafts his sometimes unwieldy Europe-inflected concerns onto brash American landscapes with mixed results. Much is made of dreams that, either spoken of at length or illustrated, are offered in lieu of character development.
| Dec 1, 2008
The first 'American' film by the director of Time of the Gypsies is every bit as bizarre and imaginative as his earlier work, although it's also maddeningly indulgent and erratic.
| Jun 24, 2006
A trule bizarre, surreal fable, flaunting yet another eccentric performance from the very young and handsome Johnny Depp; Faye Dunaway, as his love interest, and Lili Tomlin are also good.
| Original Score: B+ | Aug 8, 2005
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2005
David Lynch, you've got a target on your back. Compelling and strange, worth seeking out if you can find it (which ain't easy).
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2005
Even at its full length, showing off a more seductive rhythm and the buoyant humanism that is this director's calling card, it remains as ripe a subject for therapy as for criticism.
Full Review | Aug 30, 2004
Downright odd comedy that gets better with age.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 24, 2003
Johnny Depp and Faye Dunaway must enjoy working together. Perhaps they also enjoy making incomprehensibly inane movies, because that is what Arizona Dream is.
| Jun 5, 2002
Depp yet again reveals his unique ability to be the seductive yet compassionate idealist, discovering strength in tenderness.
| Feb 13, 2001
Imagination is a gift. It bestows power, insight and the ability to dream. It takes courage to dream on a big scale, which is what Emir Kusturica does in Arizona Dream, a wonderfully absurdist comedy...
| Jan 1, 2000
There is so much to like in Arizona Dream that you can't help wondering why you don't like it better.
| Jan 1, 2000
You can't stop watching because nobody in the audience, and possibly nobody on the screen, has any idea what's going to happen next.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000