<P> Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream film critics, reported that there were "generally unfavorable reviews", with an average score of 28 based on 16 reviews . </P> <P> The film holds a 62% rating on review aggregator Web site Rotten Tomatoes, with 39 of 63 critics giving the film a positive review . The site wrote of the critics' consensus: "For better or worse, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is every bit as strange and twisted as you'd expect from David Lynch". </P> <P> Most negative reviews came from American film critics . Among the negative reviews, Janet Maslin from The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Lynch's taste for brain - dead grotesque has lost its novelty". Fellow Times film critic Vincent Canby concurred, "It's not the worst movie ever made; it just seems to be". In his review for Variety magazine, Todd McCarthy said, "Laura Palmer, after all the talk, is not a very interesting or compelling character and long before the climax has become a tiresome teenager". USA Today gave the film one - and - a-half stars out of four, calling it, "a morbidly joyless affair". Rolling Stone magazine's Peter Travers wrote, "though the movie ups the TV ante on nudity, language and violence, Lynch's control falters . But if inspiration is lacking, talent is not . Count Lynch down but never out". In her review for The Washington Post, Rita Kempley described the film as a "perversely moving, profoundly self - indulgent prequel". </P> <P> Most positive reviews came from British film critics, and later retrospective analysis . Mark Kermode noted that many have come to consider the film a "masterpiece". Among the positive reviews, Kim Newman from the British magazine Sight & Sound stated: "The film's many moments of horror (...) demonstrate just how tidy, conventional and domesticated the generic horror movie of the 1980s and 1990s has become". Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine gave the film a four out of four stars, and the magazine later listed it in their' 100 Essential Films' list . Appearing on the podcast The Cinephiliacs, filmmaker James Gray called it "an incredible film," "a masterpiece," and "a classic example of how the critics get it wrong ." Further speaking of Fire Walk with Me, he said, "I've never seen a movie that's been made in the last 30 years...haven't seen a movie in the last thirty years, in America, which so asks us to understand and be in the shoes of a person suffering so profoundly . It's a thing of beauty ." </P>

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