Eyes Wide Shut Critic Reviews
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Totally absorbing even when it, too, strays.Read the full review
A somnolent load of wank.Read the full review
It's painstakingly paced, but it's also entrancing.Read the full review
Kubrick left one more brilliantly provocative tour de force as his epitaph.Read the full review
In terms of power and effect, Eyes Wide Shut approaches (but does not surpass) Kubrick's vintage work - it is thought-provoking and unsettling.Read the full review
Makes its strongest impression not with dialogue but with virtuoso visual work…. when you work with Kubrick, it's always the director, never the actors, who is the real star. That can lead a film up or down or, as it does here, in both directions at the same time. [16 July 1999, Calendar, p.F-1]Read the full review
A precisely modulated and mostly mesmerizing 2¾-hour suspense movie, in part because it's one of the most bravely disturbing screen works ever attempted about thoughts withheld by even the most devoted marriage partners and the ramifications of voicing them.Read the full review
Above all a masterpiece of sustained tone, a tightrope act that pays off in rich and unexpected ways.Read the full review
The director's famously over-deliberate, pause-laden style verges, for the first time, on amateurville, and that gives us too much time to linger on the movie's more bizarre details.Read the full review
The reconciliation at the end of the film is the one scene that doesn't work; a film that intrigues us because of its loose ends shouldn't try to tidy up.Read the full review
