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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 122
Fresh: 94 | Rotten: 28

Kubrick's intense study of the human psyche yields an impressive cinematic work.

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Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 8

Kubrick's intense study of the human psyche yields an impressive cinematic work.

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The final work of legendary director Stanley Kubrick, who died within a week of completing the edit, stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, at the time Hollywood's most bankable celebrity couple, and was shot on a open-ended schedule (finally totaling over 400 days), with closed sets in London standing in for New York City. Cruise and Kidman play William and Alice Harford, a physician and a gallery manager who are wealthy, successful, and travel in a sophisticated social circle; however, a certain

R, 2 hr. 39 min.

Drama, Romance

Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Schnitzler, Frederic Raphael

Mar 7, 2000

Warner Bros. Pictures

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All Critics (122) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (100) | Rotten (28) | DVD (37)

I don't know how a director whose central theme is the loss of humanity can be so uninterested in the minutiae of human speech and behavior.

May 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Slate | Comments (5)
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A riveting, thematically probing, richly atmospheric and just occasionally troublesome work, a deeply inquisitive consideration of the extent of trust and mutual knowledge possible between a man and a woman.

May 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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I kept my eyes wide open all through Eyes Wide Shut and saw more control-freak unreality than visual genius around the edges of the cluttered compositions.

April 27, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comments (8)
New York Observer
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Kubrick, exactly in character, has left us as the unchallengeable champion of the enigma.

July 21, 2005 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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As it rambles on, it makes less and less of the material, rather than more.

February 21, 2004 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Comments (3)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Well, I'll be damned. A sex movie this summer for grown-ups.

June 18, 2002 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Disturbing and completely inappropriate for kids.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comments (13)
Common Sense Media

Slow, repetitious and conventional, Kubrick's last film has some good moments but does not live up to the hype and occupies a mid-level position in an otherwise brilliant career.

June 19, 2010 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

Kubrick's final film is a virtuoso study of looking and imagining, one that implicates the audience in the act of coveting.

May 29, 2010 Full Review Source: AskMen.com | Comment

Eyes Wide Shut merits reevaluation and reappraisal.

November 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Misunderstood as a psychosexual thriller, Stanley Kubrick's final film is actually more of an acidic comedy about how Tom Cruise fails to get laid.

November 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comments (7)
Slant Magazine

As you'd expect from Kubrick, this is a cerebral film that works on several levels--the illusory, the real, the ethereal and everything that falls in between.

October 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | Comment
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

...a visually stunning achievement, a meticulously photographed exercise in mood and imagery. (HD DVD Edition)

October 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

An unqualified masterpiece from a master whose death marked the end of an era.

October 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comments (7)

Like all Kubrick's films, this one will take time, and multiple viewings, to yield up its full meaning and resonance.

July 30, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

In the end, it is unclear what Mr. Kubrick was attempting to convey with Eyes Wide Shut.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comments (4)
Big Picture Big Sound

Finally, however, it's just a cautionary tale about some very mild, old-fashioned erotic fantasies.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comments (10)

What's the biggest surprise of Eyes Wide Shut? It would be that Kubrick has nearly made a David Lynch movie.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

Moviegoers expecting typically crowd-pleasing Tom Cruise fare may come away disappointed, but fans of Kubrick's unique style will, over time, find plenty to admire.

June 5, 2005 Full Review Source: Scott Mantz' Movie Reviews | Comment
Scott Mantz' Movie Reviews

It's the last work we'll ever see by a filmmaker who gave us so much in the dozen films he created over nearly five decades of filmmaking.

April 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | Comment
Reeling Reviews

I found it brilliantly executed and haunting, like most of Kubrick's work.

December 6, 2004 Comment
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Audience Reviews for Eyes Wide Shut

Filled with breathtaking images, Kubrick's final film is not a masterpiece but nevertheless the work of a master still exploring new territory.

October 27, 2011
Graham Jones

Super Reviewer

Now, here is a little odd film (then again, what film from Kubrick is not odd?). This being the great director's last film, has something of a tragic feel to it. Mainly due to the fact that we do not know if this is how Kubrick intended the film to be. When he died of a heart attack while in 1999, he was busy editing

July 12, 2011
Zach Brehany

Super Reviewer

    1. Alice Harford: So, because I'm a beautiful woman, the only reason any man wants to talk to me is because he wants to fuck me? Is that what you're saying?
    – Submitted by Chris P (9 months ago)
    1. William Harford: No dream is ever just a dream.
    – Submitted by Chris P (9 months ago)

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