- Studio: 518 Media
- Release Date: Dec 6, 2006
- Summary: The latest hallucinatory vision from the iconoclastic director of "Blue Velvet" and "Twin Peaks," Inland Empire stars Laura Dern in a tour-de-force performance as, perhaps, an actress who lands a dream role that quickly devolves into nightmare. (IFC Center)
- Director: David Lynch
- Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 24
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Mixed: 9 out of 24
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Negative: 0 out of 24
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100In the end, it's best to make peace with the film's essential and deliberate inscrutability -- something Lynch fans have learned to do since Twin Peaks -- and to simply marvel at Dern's astonishing performance, which few actresses are likely to top anytime soon.
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100Inland Empire is interchangably terrifying, maddening, shockingly hilarious and perversely exciting, and that's just to those who end up disliking it.
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75It may not look like anything he's done before, but Inland Empire joins "Mulholland" and the whatzit "Lost Highway" (1997) to form the strangest show-business triptych around. All three concern artists whose identities demand more than one body. The films give new meaning to the phrase "dual citizenship."
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50What is Inland Empire - which Lynch is understandably distributing himself - about? What is it trying to say? If you figure that out, let me know.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 38 out of 64
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Mixed: 7 out of 64
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Negative: 19 out of 64
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NeilL10
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AndersJ.8
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WillisS.7
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TracyR4
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