Wild At Heart 1990

Vincent Canby, New York Times: Though Miss Dern and Mr. Cage are constantly upstaged by the rest of the movie, they triumph. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Barry Gifford's beautifully written picaresque novel about southern lovers on the run, though essentially literary, could have worked as a movie had David Lynch shown some fidelity to the realistic context. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Even the title is a letdown, somehow. Read more

David Ansen, Newsweek: Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie is lurid melodrama, soap opera, exploitation, put-on and self-satire. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Funny, scary and brilliantly cinematic. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Joltingly violent, wickedly funny and rivetingly erotic. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: For all its torrid sex play and violence, fire is precisely what Wild at Heart lacks. Instead of being wild at heart, it's empty at heart. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The movie's initial intensity is so great, it consumes itself. Read more