Lost Highway Critic Reviews

It's a weird movie, in that spooky/sicko, deadpan way that Lynch's movies always are, and it's guaranteed to repel anyone who likes entertainment wrapped in tidy resolutions and optimistic fade- outs. Read the full review

Lost Highway has scattered moments of Lynch's poetry, but the film's ultimate shock is that it isn't shocking at all.Read the full review

Lost Highway is unusually bizarre even for this atypical director. Co-written by Barry Gifford, the film ventures deeper into the nearly psychotic supernatural than any feature Lynch has previous overseen.Read the full review

Beautifully made but emotionally empty, it exists only for the sensation of its provocative moments. Read the full review

Although uneven and too deliberately obscure in meaning to be entirely satisfying, result remains sufficiently intriguing and startling to bring many of Lynch's old fans back on board for this careening ride.Read the full review

Lost Highway, an elaborate hallucination that could never be mistaken for the work of anyone else, finds Mr. Lynch echoing the perversity of "Blue Velvet," the earlier film of his that this most closely resembles.Read the full review

It's a shaggy ghost story, an exercise in style, a film made with a certain breezy contempt for audiences.Read the full review

In Lost Highway, David Lynch dabbles in spooky, chilly implication and a sort of hip incoherence.Read the full review

A slow, ponderous, ultimately unsuccessful exercise in cerebral nihilism.Read the full review