Evil flows like an invisible current through Lost Highway, one of Lynch’s feel-bad best.

| Feb 12, 2025

Lynch refuses to commit to any clear theme beyond the standard misogynist noir trope that women who have sexual autonomy are evil and maybe deserve to be murdered.

| Jan 23, 2025

Forget about vampires, zombies and the undead, this is true horror.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 16, 2024

Lynch's surreal masterpiece is infused with film noir conventions and characters, real world ties to true crime, and a fantastic dual performance by Patricia Arquette. Rarely has inky blackness ever looked so simultaneously romantic and terrifying.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 30, 2024

It’s a metaphysical mystery that defies literal explanation yet has a weird and haunting emotional and thematic logic to it, like a dream or a nightmare.

| May 6, 2023

Lynch, always in style, pushes the boundaries of what is unexpected and what really is down the road. Patricia Arquette, Robert Blake, and Balthazar Getty also star in this postmodern noir.

| Feb 14, 2023

Peels away the pulp trappings and runs almost entirely on film noir’s foundational fears.

| Nov 5, 2022

Creates a vivid and infernal dreamscape which will drill its way into your psyche.

| Oct 27, 2022

It travels, without deviating, through the darkest labyrinthine highways of alienation, sex and murder, in which the most unexpected situations of domestic horror are parked on the road as an act of surreal escape. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 25, 2022

Like a warm bath in silty water, it’s enjoyable both because and despite one’s being a mite queasy about just what’s in that murk.

| Jul 11, 2022

Lynch brings the movie’s febrile and violent artifice to life in visual compositions of a poised, painterly authority and interrupts them with quick bursts of hallucinatory frenzy.

| Jul 5, 2022

Behind Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet, it's probably my favorite David Lynch film.

| Jun 25, 2022

Justifiably off-putting in its simple but nonetheless jarring narrative disorientation, Lost Highway is hardly the empty, superficial exercise it was written off as.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2022

It looks fantastic, it has a wildly eclectic cast, and most of all, its pure, unadulterated Lynch.

| Original Score: B | Mar 4, 2022

Lost Highway, Lynch’s second collaboration with Wild at Heart author Barry Gifford, is all too conscious of doom nipping at your metaphorical heels. It’s a down-and-dirty Los Angeles noir that even James Ellroy would have to look at and say, “damn.”

| Sep 10, 2021

Senses of unease and menace are soaked into every scene. It is genuinely disturbing in places, adding up to an overall frightening experience that tops close to every horror work of its decade.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 24, 2020

Divided neatly between the electrifying and the tiresome, the movie contains the most breathless work Lynch has produced since Blue Velvet, struggling to break free.

| Oct 25, 2019

A prototypically baffling David Lynch picture...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 23, 2019

Beyond subversive and downright ahead of its time.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 21, 2014

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011