The movie's studied, deliberate refusal to develop interesting characters, provide a plot, or to say anything gets old after three hours.

| Jan 23, 2025

Lynch's last feature is confronting, ugly and surreal, but it's also deeply personal and feels like a full circle moment that brings him back to many of the techniques he used on his first film, Eraserhead.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2024

A newly remastered version of David Lynch ’s most experimental and hallucinatory work, Inland Empire – a story about a “woman in trouble”.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 24, 2024

Lynch's movie asks us to interpret it as if it were a dream, instead of looking at them through a literal lens.

| Oct 5, 2023

Now that we’re awash in time loops and other realities, filmgoers are primed for three hours of David Lynch’s reality and identity-questioning film, Inland Empire.

| Aug 7, 2023

... Lynch has made a film that, even for him, defies conventions, expectations, and logic, more personal art project than art movie.

| Jun 11, 2023

In true Lynchian form, you have to just sit back and take in a whole new experience.

| Mar 1, 2023

Lynch's most heartless, hopeless movie. And perhaps tellingly, to date his last.

| May 7, 2022

Quickly devolves into self-parody. Dern gives a virtuoso performance, albeit in an overwrought, numbing void.

| Apr 11, 2022

I haven't done enough transcendental meditation for this. Inland Empire, David Lynch's three-hour low-res jerk-fest from the mid-2000s, is one of the driest Lynchian artifacts in existence.

| Dec 8, 2021

This latest David Lynch opus, shot digitally with Laura Dern playing three, possibly four roles, may confuse even hardcore Lynch fanatics.

| May 21, 2020

Lynch, armed for the first time with a digital camera, ventures so far into the excesses of split narrative, talking rabbits and the obscure that only the most die-hard fan will find merit in this celluloid rune.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2018

Die-hard Lynch fans will undoubtedly find Inland Empire brilliant, but casual fans will likely think it tedious. For Lynch detractors, it will be a torture method more effective than the rack.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 15, 2018

The one thing that David Lynch can do is to leave you with a lingering feeling. Long after a host of other films have come and gone, elements from his films stay lodged in your brain.

| Aug 23, 2017

A terrifying nightmare to lose yourself in.

| Original Score: A | Feb 21, 2014

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Trippy, twisty thriller is totally out to Lynch.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 14, 2010

Unspeakably beautiful

| Aug 28, 2009

The three-hour movie is at once inscrutable and deeply satisfying for its daring high wire act of narrative illusion and passionately charged emotions.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 23, 2009

While the narrative is away with the bunnies, as a mood piece Lynch scores a slam dunk.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2008