Reviews

• Starting with the outrageous and building from there, he ignites a slight love-on-the-run novel, creating a bonfire of a movie that confirms his reputation as the most exciting and innovative filmmaker of his generation.

  Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
  
  11 May 2013

• And yet there is enough of a core of sincerity to turn even the most preposterous moments-such as the film's dream-sequence finale-into something moving and true: You buy the feelings, even as the situations degenerate into the ludicrous and absurd.

  Dave Kehr - The Chicago Tribune
  
  11 May 2013

• The drawback to Lynch's pile-it-on method is that it is reductive. One reason Wild at Heart, for all its amazements, isn't quite as stunning as "Blue Velvet" is because it seems less the working out of a single fixed obsession than an entire smear of obsessions.

  Peter Rainer - Los Angeles Times
  
  11 May 2013

• Misfit cameos, apparently random asides and an almost continuous onslaught of unsettling sex and violence mean there's no mistaking David Lynch's hand behind the camera -- but there's enough of a narrative to make this work as a straightforward road movie, too.

  - Empire
  
  11 May 2013

• David Lynch doesn't tell stories as much as he shows hallucinations. Wierd, wild, excessive, obsessive, idiosyncratic visions.

  Marjorie Baumgarten - Austin Chronicle
  
  11 May 2013