Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

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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 | Comments (7)

David Edelstein

Slate

Top Critic

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

Todd McCarthy

Variety

Top Critic

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 | Comments (8)

Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

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

January 26, 2006 Full Review | Comments (10)

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

Kubrick, exactly in character, has left us as the unchallengeable champion of the enigma.

July 21, 2005 Full Review

Jeff Millar

Houston Chronicle

Top Critic

As it rambles on, it makes less and less of the material, rather than more.

February 21, 2004 Full Review | Comments (3)

Steve Murray

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Top Critic

Disturbing and completely inappropriate for kids.

January 1, 2011 Full Review | Comments (26)

Afsheen Nomai

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

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

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

Radheyan Simonpillai

AskMen.com

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 | Comments (8)

Jeremiah Kipp

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

Christopher Smith

Bangor Daily News (Maine)

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

October 2, 2007 Full Review | Comments (7)

Film4

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

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

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

July 14, 2007 Full Review | Comments (8)

Joe Lozito

Big Picture Big Sound

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

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

Scott A. Mantz

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

Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

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

December 6, 2004

Jeffrey Overstreet

Looking Closer

No one familiar with the cold precision of Kubrick's work will be surprised that this isn't the steamy erotic thriller a synopsis (or the ads) might suggest.

July 30, 2003 Full Review

Maitland McDonagh

TV Guide's Movie Guide

There is a lot of frustrating, rough going in this supremely controlled and visually enticing enterprise. Still, it is Kubrick, and confused intensity from this director is a better bet than nearly anyone else's best work.

May 20, 2003

Jim Shelby

Palo Alto Weekly

• 1. Alice Harford: I do love you and you know there is something very important we need to do as soon as possible.
  2. William Harford: What's that?
  3. Alice Harford: Fuck.
  – Submitted by Harold M (15 months ago)
• 1. Red Cloak: [pleasantly] Please, step forwards. May I have the password?
  2. William Harford: Fidelio
  3. Red Cloak: That's correct, sir! That is the password... for admittance. But may I ask, what is the password... for the house?
  4. William Harford: The password for the house?
  5. Red Cloak: Yes.
  6. William Harford: I'm sorry... I seem to... have forgotten it.
  – Submitted by Harold M (15 months ago)
• 1. Red Cloak: That's unfortunate! Because here, it makes no difference... whether you have forgotten it... or if you never knew it. You will kindly remove your mask. [Bill removes his mask. The red cloaked cult leader continues talking in a pleasant tone] Now get undressed.
  2. William Harford: [nervously] Get... undressed?
  3. Red Cloak: [sternly] Remove your clothes.
  4. William Harford: Uh... gentlemen, please
  5. Red Cloak: Remove your clothes... or would you like us to do it for you?
  – Submitted by Harold M (15 months ago)
• 1. Victor Ziegler: Who do you think those people were? Those were not just some ordinary people. If I told you their names... no, I'm not going to tell you their names... but if I did, I don't think you'd sleep so well at night.
  – Submitted by Scott D (15 months ago)
• 1. Victor Ziegler: Life goes on until it doesn't.
  – Submitted by Scott D (15 months ago)
• 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 (2 years ago)

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