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Twin Peaks (2017) Review: Nostalgia, Trauma, and the Fracturing of Reality

In the final episode of Twin Peaks Season 2, Laura Palmer delivers the now-famous line, “I’ll see you again in 25 years.” Looking back, it almost feels like Mark Frost and David Lynch had been planning the continuation all along, as if they knew the series would become a cultural phenomenon that would linger in viewers’ minds for decades. More realistically, it may simply …

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Review: The Horror Behind the Mystery

From its very conception, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me was inseparable from the television series that preceded it. Almost every aspect of the film gains meaning through its relationship with the original Twin Peaks.

Yet David Lynch made an extraordinarily risky decision. Rather than continuing the story audiences wanted to see, he made a prequel centered on two events viewers already knew the …

Blue Velvet (1986) Review: Beneath the Surface of American Innocence

After the commercial and critical failure of Dune, David Lynch believed his Hollywood career might already be over. In the 1980s, directors who delivered expensive flops rarely got a second chance. Lynch himself later admitted that Dune was never the right project for him. Large-scale science fiction wasn’t his natural territory—his imagination worked best on a much smaller canvas, where …

Mulholland Drive (2001) Review: The Hollywood Dream That Turns Into a Nightmare

Mulholland Drive is the third David Lynch film that can roughly be divided into two distinct halves.

The first half began life as a television pilot for ABC, and it shares a lot of DNA with the Twin Peaks pilot. It revolves around a central mystery, introduces a large cast of characters, and unfolds at a deliberately slow pace.

The second half feels like pure Lynch—an intensely surreal, dreamlike …