Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

It plays better than it reviews — the watch lands harder than the write-ups suggest.

• “Fire Walk With Me is not just an artistic triumph in its own right, it’s the key to the entire Twin Peaks universe...Lynch’s unsung masterwork.”

  Martyn Conterio, The Guardian · 100

• “This was a beautiful new kind of madness, terrifying, exhausting and exhilarating in equal measure.”

  Staff (Not Credited), Time Out · 100

• “A torrid journey through the subconscious of a little girl lost, Fire Walk with Me is also a cautionary tale of sorts, the sad chronicle of a sleepy town trying to rid itself of its dirty laundry.”

  Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine · 100

• “For Lynch himself, “the big news was that I’d finally completely killed Twin Peaks with this picture”. But in fact, this exceptional, widely misunderstood film restores it to writhing, screaming life...Far from cheating viewers, this fresh perspective offered them a new way to decode the entire Twin Peaks mythos, with Sheryl Lee’s extraordinary, soul-tearing performance shaking the franchise out of its cherry-pie-munching reverie...Time has passed, and its brilliance is gradually coming into focus, just as Lynch hoped it would.”

  Robbie Collin, The Telegraph · 100

• “The film is alarmingly dark. It isn’t especially funny, or quirky, or even much in keeping with the spirit of the series. But in its own singular, deeply strange way, Fire Walk With Me is David Lynch’s masterpiece.”

  Calum Marsh, Village Voice · 100