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.
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11/19/07
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
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Reviews Counted: 116
Fresh: 90
Rotten:26
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Consensus: Kubrick's intense study of the human psyche yields an impressive cinematic work.
Runtime: 2 hrs 59 mins 42 secs
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Stanley Kubrick's final film is a mature, highly intelligent, thrilling masterpiece of sexual obsession and marital (in)fidelity. Tom Cruise stars as Bill Harford, a doctor who becomes obsessed with a sexual fantasy that his wife,... [More]
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Todd Field
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Reviews for Eyes Wide Shut
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.
10/26/07
An unqualified masterpiece from a master whose death marked the end of an era.
10/02/07
Top Critic Like all Kubrick's films, this one will take time, and multiple viewings, to yield up its full meaning and resonance.
07/30/07
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.
05/08/07
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.
05/08/07
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.
04/27/07
Top Critic Finally, however, it's just a cautionary tale about some very mild, old-fashioned erotic fantasies.
01/26/06
What's the biggest surprise of Eyes Wide Shut? It would be that Kubrick has nearly made a David Lynch movie.
12/06/05
Top Critic Kubrick, exactly in character, has left us as the unchallengeable champion of the enigma.
07/21/05
Top Critic 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.
04/09/05
I found it brilliantly executed and haunting, like most of Kubrick's work.
12/06/04
As it rambles on, it makes less and less of the material, rather than more.
02/21/04
Top Critic 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.
07/30/03
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.
05/20/03
While it is not without faults, it is definitely a compelling piece of art that will be held up as an example of what filmmaking is supposed to be.
02/08/03
The #1 Movie of 1999: 'A coherent summary of Kubrick's longtime themes and a worthy capstone to his long, distinguished career.'
01/10/03
What ends up on screen is sumptuous, portentous, slow-moving and pointless.
10/15/02
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