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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: [Lynch's] never before married his subconscious impulses to an accessible storytelling style in such a satisfying, beguiling way. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A wonderfully Lynchian dive into the dream and the reality of Hollywood, moviemaking, acting and love. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: You may walk out of this movie with a headache, you may walk out angry or or you may feel like you've just come back from Oz, but you will not walk out unaffected. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Elegantly haunting, assured but still deeply mysterious. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Nobody creates cinematic nightmares like David Lynch, and Mulholland Drive ... is one of his most intense and scary. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Its investigation into the power of movies pierces a void from which you can hear the screams of a ravenous demon whose appetites can never be slaked. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Mr. Showbiz: The results haunt the back of your skull. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Puts these people into a lot of strange situations that hold our attention because of how confidently and atmospherically Lynch ... has re-created their dilemmas. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Mulholland Drive is the product of an expansive vision. Lynch isn't projecting private nightmares this time. Los Angeles is the city of all our dreams. Read more
Paul Tatara, CNN.com: Maintains a consistent, relatively humanistic Lynchian vibe from beginning to end, and it sports a few entertainingly loopy scenes. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: If it's Lynch's intention to stun us into silence with the mysteries of life, he does so. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Mulholland Drive may on some level be a sacramental dream as rerun, but Lynch is such a hypnotic craftsman that he holds you in his thrall. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Like Twin Peaks, it keeps spooling out more narrative twists until the ingenious maze turns into an oppressive tangle. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Lynch needs to renew himself with an influx of the deep feeling he has for people, for outcasts, and lay off the cretins and hobgoblins and zombies for a while. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: A load of moronic and incoherent garbage. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: One of the very few movies in which the pieces not only add up to much more than the whole, but also supersede it with a series of (for the most part) fascinating fragments. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Lynch is playing a big practical joke on us. He takes characters we have come to care about and obscures their fates in gibberish. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Works because Lynch is absolutely uncompromising. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: A gorgeously rounded picture, one that starts out with a glamorous come-hither wink and has the good grace to follow through, although perhaps not in the way we expect. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: It holds us, spellbound and amused, for all of its loony and luscious, exasperating 146 minutes. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A movie to savour. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Thrilling and ludicrous. The movie feels entirely instinctual. Read more