Lynch, as he does with all his films, refuses to explain anything, although he does say that he has yet to read an interpretation that matches his.
– V.A. Musetto,
New York Post,
17 Jan 2007
fresh:
Some of it is disturbing, some of it is embarrassingly flat, but all of it shows a degree of technical accomplishment far beyond anything else on the midnight-show circuit.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
25 Sep 2007
rotten:
The mind boggles to learn that Lynch labored on this pic for five years.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
25 Sep 2007
rotten:
A murkily pretentious shocker.
– Tom Buckley,
New York Times,
14 Oct 2014
fresh:
What makes Eraserhead great -- and still, perhaps the best of all Lynch's films? Intensity. Nightmare clarity. And perhaps also it's the single-mindedness of its vision.