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| Miss Ladd wearing a white satin dress, a girlish bow in her hair and holding a martini, straight up, its olives genteelly pierced by tooth-picks. . .her Marietta, played with fine sleazy zest! - Vincent Canby (New York Times) |
| And Diane Ladd offers a performance that Bette Davis would have been proud of, smoldering to the point that you swear the martini glass she's clutching in her hands is going to break at any second! - Mark Perry (The Star, Chicago) |
 Marietta, Diane Ladd, in one of the most ferocious performances ever committed to celluloid! - Cindy Fuchs (Philadelphia City Paper) |
| Marietta, Diane Ladd, played with eerie bombast! - Julie Salamom (The Wall Street Journal) |
| The great Diane Ladd literally knocks herself out breathing life into this dynamic character. It's she who puts the heart into Wild At Heart! - Rex Reed (New York Observer) |
…played with lubricious abandon…Diane Ladd is the Wicked Witch, all long nails, daft cackles and unquenchable vengeance! - Richard Corliss (Time Magazine) |
| The biggest stretch is for Diane Ladd, whose highly unflattering role is the kind of gamble that Jack Nicholson took in 'Chinatown.' She pulls it off. She also doubles as the 'Wicked Witch of the West'! - Martin Moyniham (Albany Times Union) |
| Ladd squeezes her juicy role with scene-stealing zest. "No tongue - my lipstick!" - Peter Travers (Rolling Stone) |
 Ladd pulls out the stops as the ultimate villainess, the female counterpart of Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet. Poured into slinky white satin, with claw-like finger nails and Mae West platinum wig, she's a sluttishly sashaying comic monster. (In one horrifying funny scene, she smears her face kabuki-style with blood-red lipstick)…Her disappearance from the action in the last half-hour is one of Lynch's most drastic miscalculations!" - Joel E. Siegel (City Paper, Washington, D.C.) |
| Marietta, played with fire sleazy zest by Diane Ladd! - Lawrence Van Gelder (New York Times) |
| Diane Ladd gets to pull out all the stops as the reel-life monster mom, and she's a hoot! - Robert Osborne (Hollywood Reporter) |
| Diane Ladd is Lula's mother. She dresses like Jean Harlow and poses like Mae West. Her speech, however, is pure Lynch! - Lou Cedrone (Evening Sun, Baltimore) |
 It's as though Lynch has poured all his fear and loathing of controlling mothers (or just mothers) into Marietta, and Ladd seethes and steams, flexes her lurid nails and tosses her metallic blonde curls as she turns loose her demonic former lover…Marietta's an overwrought cross between Blanche DuBois and Cruella De Vil. - Ella Taylor (LA Weekly) |
| Amazingly over-the-top…she's the Wicked Witch of the piece…she's like some melding of Barnum and Kabuki! - Peter Rainer (Los Angeles Times) |
| Diane Ladd is outrageously entertaining as Marietta, Lula's insanely vengeful mother! - Edward Guthmann (San Francisco Chronicle) |
| Lynch turns Ladd's hysterical Marietta literally into the Wicked Witch! - David Ansen (NEWSWEEK) |
| What Lynch evokes in Wild At Heart is wrenching - he gets emotions out of Dern, Ladd and Harry Dean Stanton that are almost embarrassingly precise! - Judith Lewis (Minneapolis City Pages) |
| This film is filled with strong performances by Cage, Dern, Ladd and Dafoe! - Rich Orndorf (Minneapolis Post) |
 She is so amazing to me in this film and exposes so much and opens so much and just completely goes to Jupiter. (It) blew my mind when I saw the movie! - 'Lula' Laura Dern, interview by Yardena Arar (The Orange County Register) |
| Diane Ladd is one of the ten top actresses, not only in this country, but in the whole world. - Richard Corliss (Time Magazine) |