Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
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Reviews Counted:117
Fresh:91
Rotten:26
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: Kubrick's intense study of the human psyche yields an impressive cinematic work.
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... [More]
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Todd Field
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Reviews for Eyes Wide Shut
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It will certainly keep your attention. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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. Full Review |
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B+ |
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. Full Review |
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An unqualified masterpiece from a master whose death marked the end of an era. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Like all Kubrick's films, this one will take time, and multiple viewings, to yield up its full meaning and resonance. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Finally, however, it's just a cautionary tale about some very mild, old-fashioned erotic fantasies. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
What's the biggest surprise of Eyes Wide Shut? It would be that Kubrick has nearly made a David Lynch movie. Full Review |
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Kubrick, exactly in character, has left us as the unchallengeable champion of the enigma. Full Review |
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B+ |
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. Full Review |
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B+ |
I found it brilliantly executed and haunting, like most of Kubrick's work. Full Review |
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As it rambles on, it makes less and less of the material, rather than more. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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