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Inland Empire

Inland Empire

Horror · Thriller · Mystery · 2006

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

Movie details

Inland Empire

“A woman in trouble.”

2006 Horror · Thriller · Mystery 3h 0m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.8 / 10

67K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

72 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

73 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

7.0 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Inland Empire?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

Taste neighbourhood

Nearby on the taste map.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

David Lynch

Written by

David Lynch

Laura Dern

Laura Dern

Nikki Grace / Susan Blue

Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

Kingsley Stewart

Justin Theroux

Justin Theroux

Devon Berk / Billy Side

Harry Dean Stanton

Harry Dean Stanton

Freddie Howard

Karolina Gruszka

Karolina Gruszka

Lost Girl

Peter J. Lucas

Peter J. Lucas

Piotrek Krol / Smithy

Krzysztof Majchrzak

Krzysztof Majchrzak

Phantom

Court is in session

Put Inland Empire on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.