Eraserhead 1978

Critics score:
91 / 100

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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: What makes Eraserhead great -- and still, perhaps the best of all Lynch's films? Intensity. Nightmare clarity. And perhaps also it's the single-mindedness of its vision. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Lynch, as he does with all his films, refuses to explain anything, although he does say that he has yet to read an interpretation that matches his. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Some of it is disturbing, some of it is embarrassingly flat, but all of it shows a degree of technical accomplishment far beyond anything else on the midnight-show circuit. Read more

Tom Buckley, New York Times: A murkily pretentious shocker. Read more

Tom Huddleston, Time Out: Lynch's remarkable first feature is a true original. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: The mind boggles to learn that Lynch labored on this pic for five years. Read more

Nathan Lee, Village Voice: What a masterpiece of texture, a feat of artisanal attention, an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, flesh, metal, ooze. Read more