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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: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 9

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

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Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Schnitzler, Frederic Raphael

Mar 7, 2000

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Critic Reviews for Eyes Wide Shut

All Critics (125) | Top Critics (28) | 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 (7)
David Edelstein
Slate
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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
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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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)
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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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)
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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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
Jeff Millar
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)
Steve Murray
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Disturbing and completely inappropriate for kids.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | 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 Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
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 Source: AskMen.com
Radheyan Simonpillai
AskMen.com

Eyes Wide Shut merits reevaluation and reappraisal.

November 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Jeremiah Kipp
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 (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 Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Christopher Smith
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
John J. Puccio
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)
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 Source: eFilmCritic.com
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 Source: Big Picture Big Sound | 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 Source: Film Threat
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
Scott A. Mantz
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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
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

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

December 6, 2004
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer
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My favorite Stanley Kubrick film.
January 22, 2011
CreedsDelight
Matt Goodman

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It's strange to think of a Kubrick film as underrated, but I find it fascinating how so many have dismissed Eyes Wide Shut during both its theatrical run and its subsequent life on video. Some theories have postulated that he had become so reclusive (he hadn't made a film since 1987's Full Metal Jacket and lived in exile in England), how could he possibly know anything about modern-day relationships, New York, etc.? Others have suggested that he had become so insular, cold and bitter (as if he were a teddy bear beforehand?) that he no longer had the ability to objectively analyze much of anything.

Yes, it was ms-marketed, and sure, Eyes Wide Shut may not be as profound as some of his masterworks, but it's still a pretty good film in its own right. At its core it's about the bonds of marriage and the challenge of achieving real intimacy. The sexual politics aside (which one can right an entire essay on), this film is one of the more penetrating (bad pun, I know) and creative exposes on the classic bored and wealthy upper-class trying to find true meaning in their lives. And let's not forget, this is Stanley Kubrick at the helm and he hadn't lost his touch: the compositions were spellbinding; the lighting both stylized and natural were endlessly intriguing and added so much to his character's development; his long shots and dissolves were staged with meticulous detail. Also, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the show-stopping, eerily ritualistic upper crust orgy scene -- everything from the mood lighting, to the cold and unemotional mansion that hosted the event, to the cloaks and masks, to the invasive music is endlessly fascinating and surreal, and as good as anything Kubrick has ever done.

The criticisms, though, do persist. Some of pointed out that the film is cheaply sexually exploitative, that only the women are nude and they are nothing more than sexual objects. Well, yes, but the film is quite pointedly a trip through a fairly conventional man's sexual unconscious and necessarily told from a male point of view. None of these things should come as a surprise. Moreover, much like Steve McQueen's masterful study of sexual addiction, Shame, I found Eyes Wide Shut to be remarkably asexual. Sex is power, nothing less and nothing more. It's powerful in the way dreams can almost destroy a marriage, and it's powerful as a reinforcement of class stratification. As far as lead characters go, maybe Bill Hartford (Cruise) isn't complex as Humbert Humbert or Jack Torrance, but isn't that the point? Eyes Wide Shut isn't so much about one man's mental illness or psychotic breakdown, it's about how all of us -- our projections and insecurities manifested. To that end, Eyes Wide Shut is an effective swan song to Kubrick's llife and magnificent career.
April 5, 2010
JonathanHutchings
Jonathan Hutchings

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Eyes Wide Shut Quotes

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    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 (14 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 (14 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 (14 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 (14 months ago)
    1. Victor Ziegler: Life goes on until it doesn't.
    – Submitted by Scott D (14 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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