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“Most Lynch pictures feature a structuring crime story that works like a clothesline on which he can hang his surreal digressions and oddball interludes. ‘Inland Empire’ has no such conventional plot mechanics, unspooling instead with the violent anti-logic of a nightmare.” – Sean Burns, WBUR