In '' Rolling Stone '' , Peter Travers observed , " '' Mulholland Drive '' makes movies feel alive again . This sinful pleasure is a fresh triumph for Lynch , and one of the best films of a sorry-ass year . For visionary daring , swooning eroticism and colors that pop like a whore 's lip gloss , there 's nothing like this baby anywhere . " J. Hoberman of '' The Village Voice '' stated , " This voluptuous phantasmagoria ... is certainly Lynch 's strongest movie since '' Blue Velvet '' and maybe '' Eraserhead '' . The very things that failed him in the bad-boy rockabilly debacle of '' Lost Highway '' — the atmosphere of free-floating menace , pointless transmigration of souls , provocatively dropped plot stitches , gimcrack alternate universes — are here brilliantly rehabilitated . " '' Mulholland Drive '' was not without its detractors . Rex Reed of '' The New York Observer '' said that it was the worst film he had seen in 2001 , calling it " a load of moronic and incoherent garbage " . In '' New York '' , Peter Rainer observed , " Although I like it more than some of his other dreamtime freakfests , it 's still a pretty moribund ride ... Lynch needs to renew himself with an influx of the deep feeling he has for people , for outcasts , and lay off the cretins and hobgoblins and zombies for a while . " In '' The Washington Post '' , Desson Howe called it " an extended mood opera , if you want to put an arty label on incoherence " . Todd McCarthy of '' Variety '' found much to praise — " Lynch cranks up the levels of bizarre humor , dramatic incident and genuine mystery with a succession of memorable scenes , some of which rank with his best " — but also noted , " the film jumps off the solid ground of relative narrative coherence into Lynchian fantasyland ... for the final 45 minutes , Lynch is in mind-twisting mode that presents a form of alternate reality with no apparent meaning or logical connection to what came before . Although such tactics are familiar from '' Twin Peaks '' and elsewhere , the sudden switcheroo to head games is disappointing because , up to this point , Lynch had so wonderfully succeeded in creating genuine involvement . " James Berardinelli also criticized it , saying : " Lynch cheats his audience , pulling the rug out from under us . He throws everything into the mix with the lone goal of confusing us . Nothing makes any sense because it 's not supposed to make any sense . There 's no purpose or logic to events . Lynch is playing a big practical joke on us . " Film theorist Ray Carney notes , " You would n't need all the emotional back-flips and narrative trap doors if you had anything to say . You would n't need doppelgangers and shadow-figures if your characters had souls . " Later , '' Mulholland Drive '' was named the best film of the decade by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association , '' Cahiers du cinéma '' , IndieWire , Slant Magazine , '' Reverse Shot '' , '' The Village Voice '' and '' Time Out New York '' , who asked rhetorically in a reference to the September 11 attacks , " Can there be another movie that speaks as resonantly — if unwittingly — to the awful moment that marked our decade ? ... '' Mulholland Drive '' is the monster behind the diner ; it 's the self-delusional dream turned into nightmare . " It was also voted best of the decade in a '' Film Comment '' poll of international " critics , programmers , academics , filmmakers and others " , and by the magazine 's readers . It appeared on lists among the ten best films of the decade , coming in third according to '' The Guardian '' , '' Rolling Stone '' critic Peter Travers , the Canadian Press , '' Access Hollywood '' critic Scott Mantz , and eighth on critic Michael Phillips ' list . In 2010 it was named the second best arthouse film ever by '' The Guardian '' . The film was voted as the 11th best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years by a group of '' Los Angeles Times '' writers and editors with the primary criterion of communicating an inherent truth about the L.A. experience . '' Empire '' magazine placed '' Mulholland Drive '' at number 391 on their list of the five hundred greatest films ever . It has also been ranked number 38 on the Channel 4 program '' 50 Films to See Before You Die '' . In 2011 , online magazine '' Slate '' named '' Mulholland Drive '' in its piece on " New Classics " as the most enduring film since 2000
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