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Mulholland Dr.

2001

David Lynch

Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller ...

7.1

75,794

Mystery. Drama. Thriller. Romance Blonde Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia (Laura Harring). Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project. David Lynch’s seductive and scary vision of Los Angeles’s dream factory is one of the true masterpieces of the new ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie is a surrealist dreamscape in the form of a Hollywood film noir, and the less sense it makes, the more we can't stop watching it (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Lynch makes an extraordinary leap to embrace the irrational (...) 'Mulholland Drive' ranks alongside Fellini's '8 ½' and other auteurist fantasias as a monumental self-reflection."	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"Nobody creates cinematic nightmares like David Lynch, and Mulholland Drive ... is one of his most intense and scary"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"A genuinely ominous and suspenseful thriller (...) A stunning starring debut [by Watts]."	POS
United States	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"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"An extended mood opera, if you want to put an arty label on incoherence"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It just hasn’t aged a day (...) 'Mulholland Drive' is as brilliant and disquieting as anything Lynch has ever done (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Luke Buckmaster BBC	"There is something endlessly fascinating about a film that prioritises questions over answers, stretching our expectations of what cinema can achieve while scene by scene also providing a richly fulfilling experience"	POS
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"It holds us, spellbound and amused, for all of its loony and luscious, exasperating 146 minutes"	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"A haunting, selfish masterpiece that literalizes the theory of surrealism as perpetual dream state (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
Canada	Shelagh Rowan-Legg Screen Anarchy	"One of Lynch's finest works"	POS

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