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

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

Even the title is a letdown, somehow.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 17, 2008

Joltingly violent, wickedly funny and rivetingly erotic.

| Sep 17, 2008

Funny, scary and brilliantly cinematic.

| Jan 26, 2006

Not for the weak of heart, one of the best Lynchian outings with some fantastically memorable dialogue.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Though Miss Dern and Mr. Cage are constantly upstaged by the rest of the movie, they triumph.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2003

Lynch's kinky fairy tale is a triumph of startling images and comic invention.

Full Review | May 12, 2001

The movie is lurid melodrama, soap opera, exploitation, put-on and self-satire.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

For all its torrid sex play and violence, fire is precisely what Wild at Heart lacks. Instead of being wild at heart, it's empty at heart.

| Jan 1, 2000

The movie's initial intensity is so great, it consumes itself.

| Jan 1, 2000

David Lynch doesn't tell stories as much as he shows hallucinations.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000