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  Review by Grooveman ★★★★★ 32

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  Review by maria ★★★★★ 10

  i feel like david lynch is directing my life because nothing makes any fucking sense

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  Review by Ethan Vestby ★★★★★ 7

  Lynch on frequent collaborator Dean Hurley in the DVD special features: "I really don't like Dean as a person but he's a fantastic sound man."

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 12

  BRUTAL FUCKING MURDER.

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★★ 4

  so glad i got to see this in a theater with a packed crowd. felt like collectively being beamed transmissions from a stream-of-conciousness purgatory we all just temporarily lived in. so much weird, nervous laughter and for whatever reason a family sat right in front of us: the two kids walked out after an hour, the parents after two. still impressed with how little this offers up in terms of narrative explanation (even for lynch) and simply trusts you to intuit your way through its pure surreal terror and pain. though not my absolute favorite of his it probably is the one where i most feel that quote he loves: “we are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in…

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  Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★★ 18

  "I'm trying to tell you so's you'll understand how it went. The thing is, I don't know what was before or after. I don't know what happened first, and it's kinda laid a mindfuck on me."

  Inland Empire is the most experimental and nonlinear of David Lynch's already experimental and nonlinear body of work. The fact that the most popular review of it here on LB at the moment is just a question mark says a lot about how accessible it is (i.e. not at all). The easiest way to describe it is as a movie about an actress who takes a role that makes her begin to question and then eventually lose her sense of the difference between performance…

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  Review by sarah squirm ★★★★★ 4

  LA really do be like this

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★ 7

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  Review by DirkH ★★ 18

  Visual representation of me watching Inland Empire:

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  Guess this wasn't for me.....

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  Review by Jake Cole ★★★★★

  Lynch's celluloid films have always had a velvety, clear vision at odds with the haziness of their contents. Inland Empire flips that by using low-grade digital to create the smeary, incoherent, oneiric look that his movies always achieved tonally. Rewatching this film after the last few Malick movies, I see some parallels: for all the incomprehensible montage and jump cuts and half-articulated ideas and plots, the core of the movie is nothing but cliché. We have Hollywood as evil, actress/character persona swap, abuse, the many ways in which men prey upon women (including directing them, foregrounding one of the most common early critiques lobbed against Lynch himself).

  But what emerges is a bold refraction of these tropes and topics into…

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  Review by liam f ★★★★★ 4

  the only thing more surreal than this film is the fact that Terry Crews was in it

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  Review by Hesse ★★★★★ 10

  Saw the premiere of the restoration at IFC. My IQ dropped to zero. Packed house and after everyone filed out of the theater I continued to walk at “200 people leaving a theater at once through one door” speed for like 4 blocks before realizing I didn’t know where I was going I had just started walking in a random direction.

  
  Edit: just noticed a lot of reviews from people I follow calling this “impenetrable” or “impossible to understand” and I have to say I disagree completely