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Movie Overview
Cast
• Kyle MacLachlan
• Isabella Rossellini
• Dennis Hopper
Director
• David Lynch
MPAA Rating
R
Blue Velvet (1986)

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OFCS Rating: 93% Fresh
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4/4
"...Deservedly canonized..."  Film Freak Central  Bill Chambers

4/5
"The brutally honest performances, articulate style, and the movie's sexual and violent shock value save the story from becoming too stale or uninspiring."  Filmcritic.com  Blake French

A+
"In 1986 David Lynch broke the language of cinema wide open in the same way that Jackson Pollock did with the art world in the early '40s."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

"a beautiful film about sickness, a funny film about degeneracy"  Cinemania  Dan Jardine

1.5/4
"Weird for weird's sake isn't enough; there has to be something more."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

A-
"I loved the film for its intransigencies."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

4/4
"One of the most original, invigorating films I've ever seen."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

4/4
"David Lynch's mise en scene screams "Leave it to Beaver.""  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

"An unsettling film that depicts the moral rot underlying the American Dream through arresting cinematic images that are at once realistic and surreal."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

"A Nancy Drew nightmare of suburban depravity...but Velvet tackles more than red-county debauchery; it's not only about sex in America but sex in movies."  Cinepinion  Henry Stewart

A
"lies within the Technicolor tradition of film-noir, where evil continually lurks beneath the surface"  Old School Reviews  John A. Nesbit

9/10
"...evil lurks in the most seemingly harmless places."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

"Even some fifteen years after the release of Blue Velvet its vision remains wildly adamant relative to the stride of other works of contemporary noir. There have been many films about suburban crime, but none as dangerously imposing as this."  Not Coming to a Theater Near You  Rumsey Taylor

9/10
Read review  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Dragan Antulov

4/4
Read review  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

Read review  Montreal Film Journal  Kevin N. Laforest
OFCS Rating: 93% Fresh
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