Inland Empire (film) it "A dazzling and exquisitely original riddle as told by an enigma" and Jim Emerson (editor of RogerEbert.com) gave it 4 stars and praised it: "When people say "Inland Empire" is Lynch's "Sunset Boulevard", Lynch's "Persona" or Lynch's "8½", they're quite right, but it also explicitly invokes connections to Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining", Jean-Luc Godard's "Pierrot le Fou", Buñuel and Dalí's "Un Chien Andalou", Maya Deren's LA-experimental "Meshes of the Afternoon" (a Lynch favorite) and others". However, Carina Chocano of the "Los Angeles Times" wrote that "the film, which begins promisingly, disappears down so many rabbit holes (one of them
Invisible Adversaries Export and Su Friedrich," referred to "Invisible Adversaries" as a feminist version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", noted that the film includes references to famous paintings and to "Un Chien Andalou", and wrote that therefore it "is visually rick, entertaining, striking, but also demanding." A few reviews, however, were negative. For example, London's "Time Out" wrote about the film that it is "[n]ot unlike """ and that it will "probably age as badly" and a reviewer for "The Heights" wrote that "I was expecting a great feminist work here, but got mediocrity. I cannot recommend that you see this