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*Reviews of films from 2006 to 2014 first appeared on Flixster.
lynch's overstuffed tribute-cum-parody of mid-century americana shifts gears too late to make a full impact, as he retreats into tiresome referentiality, from other films and his own, that stifles the quirky yet torrid love affair at the centre of it all
an extended groove through a downbeat episode of cold war history unfurled in punchy, sometimes funny, and even chilling stylistic strategies that matches the revolutionary spirit of the times, remarkably edited and scored with truth to spare
a secular invocation of the poetic wonder of nature, malick's sensibilities are here at their most impressionistic, though most of the footage is strikingly evocative on its own, the sincerity of this work is what ultimately matters