Blue Velvet (1986) Critic Reviews
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The most brilliantly disturbing film ever to have its roots in small-town American life. [19 September 1986, Calendar, p.6-1]Read the full review
As fascinating as it is freakish. It confirms Mr. Lynch's stature as an innovator, a superb technician, and someone best not encountered in a dak alley. [19 September 1986]Read the full review
Blue Velvet is David Lynch in peak form, and represents (to date) his most accomplished motion picture. It is a work of fascinating scope and power that rivals any of the most subversive films to reach the screens during the '80s.Read the full review
Hopper creates a flabbergasting portrait of unrepentent, irredeemable evil.Read the full review
Dark, menacing and sexual, with satanic overtones, like a Black Sabbath song, with many moments of genuine fright and harsh eroticism. [19 September 1986, Daily Notebook, p.76]Read the full review
Doesn't progress or deepen, it just gets weirder, and to no good end.Read the full review
So strong, so shocking and yet so audacious that people walk out shaking their heads; they don't know quite what to make of it.Read the full review
