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- With its impressive array of hundreds of film clips, frenetic editing and whip-smart narrators, Lynch/Oz offers an exciting prism through which to view Lynch’s oeuvre.
- 80CineVueMartyn ConterioCineVueMartyn ConterioWhat Philippe does yet again, as with his his previous documentaries, is a bang-up job of examining what makes great films great, and here it is twofold: showing that The Wizard of Oz is not just an all-timer in its own right, but showcasing how Lynch drew on its emotional and cosmic resonance, in overt and oblique ways, for his own iconic forays.
- 75The Film StageMichael FrankThe Film StageMichael FrankFor a Lynch diehard, Lynch/Oz will be catnip. For any average moviegoer, it digs into the well of American cinema history with enough fascination that it’s worth a watch.
- 75The PlaylistCharles BramescoThe PlaylistCharles BramescoA mite repetitive at nearly two hours, it’s still an edifying intermediate-level study compressing academic insight into personal reflection, and vice versa.
- 70Little White LiesMarina AshiotiLittle White LiesMarina AshiotiBy transposing the video essay format to a feature-length affair, Philippe attempts a union of theory (criticism) and practice (documentary filmmaking), and so the very ontology of Lynch/Oz becomes a subject of fascination in its own right.
- 67IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichLynch/Oz is less compelling for any of its individual theories or observations than for how it frames movies as permeable membranes that flicker between personal obsession and the collective unconscious.
- 65TheWrapSimon AbramsTheWrapSimon AbramsWhile some talking points tend to be belabored and others don’t get unpacked at great enough length, Lynch/Oz still offers movie-lovers a variety of thoughtful and dynamic new ways of seeing Lynch’s work.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThough frustratingly unfocused and sometimes overreaching (even compared to Philippe’s other docs, which are never what you’d call precision-crafted), the film is consistently enjoyable, with just enough flashes of insight to justify its existence.
- 60VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanLynch/Oz is bursting with ideas about it, and about how it colonized the consciousness of David Lynch, but the movie is too pie-in-the-sky to quite make it over the rainbow.
- 20Film ThreatMichael Talbot-HaynesFilm ThreatMichael Talbot-HaynesBehind the pseudo-intellectual curtain of Philippe’s pseudo-documentary, you will not find a wizard. You will find nothing at all.