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

| Apr 11, 2022

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

Inland Empire opens and contracts in your imagination while you watch it -- and you're still watching it well after it's left the screen. It's a long but thoroughly absorbing three hours.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 25, 2007

An amazing and unshakeable experience.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 4, 2007

A bucket of Lynchian leftovers, stirred slightly and left to ferment in the dark.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 4, 2007

You may find Lynch's experimentalism and willful obscurity to be the work of a poseur, ultimately pointless drivel. I can understand that, but I think you would be wrong.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 13, 2007

A can't-miss experience and likely one of the year's very best films.

| Original Score: A | Apr 12, 2007

The great eroto-surrealist David Lynch has gone truffling for another imaginary orifice of pleasure, with results that are fascinating, sometimes very unwholesome, and always enjoyable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2007

Whether shattering or boring, you'll still have your eyes wide, wide open from begin to end.

| Mar 8, 2007

A dazzling and exquisitely original riddle as told by an enigma, featuring a superb, multi-layered performance by Laura Dern.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 7, 2007

The man's still a genius; he just needs to be more ruthless in the editing suite.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2007

A free-fall plunge through David Lynch's imagination, a curious and often astonishing place. The film is dazzling and bewildering in equal measure.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 9, 2007

With Inland Empire, the whole thing feels stuck in Lynch's noggin.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Feb 8, 2007

Undeniably, Inland Empire has moments that seem like transmissions from cinema's future.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Feb 3, 2007

Inland Empire is full of good and bad girls, but [Lynch] gives this obsession an interesting spin by having most of them played by the same actress.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 26, 2007

While you suspect Lynch's digital video acumen will flower into something extraordinary in coming projects, this one's intermittently extraordinary at best.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 26, 2007

Inland Empire is essentially a journey inside David Lynch's mind, sometimes burrowing very deep indeed. Nobody else could have made this film; nobody else should try.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 19, 2007

It's a bit like watching the final 40 minutes of Mulholland stretched to three hours and filmed with digital-video cameras available at a Circuit City near you.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jan 17, 2007

It's worth watching as yet another example of Lynch's extraordinary collaboration with Dern. It may be overstating things to call her performance heroic, but it's nothing if not brave, as she dares to embody Lynch's most brutal impressions of Hollywood.

| Jan 11, 2007

The effect, after an hour or two, begins to resemble a very anxiety-fraught session of watching music videos on M온라인카지노추천.

| Dec 15, 2006