Unless your heart is a big old lump of rock, you’ve got to swoon at least a little when Sailor serenades Lula with “Love Me Tender” at the close.

| Jan 23, 2025

Something of an desert noir/soap opera fever dream with completely over the top performances (MVP Diane Ladd). Cage and Dern are both incredibly hot, even if the film itself feels slightly disjointed and never truly comes together cohesively.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 4, 2024

Wild at Heart's materials are so thin that the Lynchisms appear to be the film's principal reason for being. As the film runs on, the flaws accrue.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 9, 2023

A film that seems like a grand practical joke. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 6, 2022

Accepting Wild at Heart as a flame-fueled story in a Lynchian technique helps to not only concur with the film's harshest critics, but also celebrate the very qualities they condemn.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 22, 2022

I have a hard time focusing during Lynch's films, but so many of Wild at Heart's extreme scenes stick with me.

| Jan 20, 2022

I enjoyed it more back in 1990, though I'd be hard-pressed to recall exactly why -- viewing it now, it's only a marginally satisfying experience, with some potent set-pieces diluted by an almost juvenile predilection on Lynch's part.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 7, 2021

There is no denying the fun to be had with Wild at Heart. Its irresistibly charismatic leads draw you into Lynch's anything goes, 50s-inflected nightmare with an ease and insanity that's unlike anything put to film before or after.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2020

I don't think at all that 'Wild Heart' is one of the great works of David Lynch, but I must say it is a wildly entertaining road movie about love, passion and freedom. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 8, 2020

Most of the time it's unquestionably disturbing, but every so often a hint of deeper meaning pokes through the strangeness.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 25, 2020

A non-stop fun-fest that doesn't have tried to be groovy, but goes to great pains to make sure things stay that way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2020

Perhaps the major problem is that despite Cage and Dern's best efforts, Lynch is ultimately interested only in iconography, not characters at all.

| Jan 11, 2020

The scattergun nastiness is, after a while, profoundly unaffecting.

| Apr 11, 2019

Lynch brings forth a world where evil and weirdness coexist, the two being these obstacles that arise in the way of a romance unlike any other.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 29, 2018

There's a spontaneous, anything-can-happen feeling to it that's the primary appeal of any road movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 27, 2015

A perverse, violent, nutso depiction of romance that even Bonnie and Clyde would shrug off as too hardcore for them.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 21, 2014

Should be perceived as a wicked comedy.

| Original Score: B | Feb 10, 2013

The result's mostly empty at heart and hollow on top.

| Sep 17, 2008

Even the title is a letdown, somehow.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 17, 2008

This winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or is a lunatic road movie seething with the same dark intensity that animates director Lynch's earlier work.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 17, 2008