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| NZone |
Leave it up to Stanley Kubrick to spend the last two years of his life making the most humane, emotional motion picture of his career. more... |
| CBC Infoculture |
Kubrick's much-anticipated last hurrah is no more hot and sweaty than a tall glass of iced tea. more... |
| Christian Science Monitor |
in some respects, it's a Hollywood marketer's dream, with sleek performances by two superstars and a sexually explicit plot about a married man facing bizarre temptations. In other respects, it's a Kubrick film to its bones, using its seemingly lurid subject to spark a serious exploration of the human capacities for self-indulgence and self-delusion. more... |
| CNN |
all undressed with no place to go. more... |
| culturevulture.net |
the warmest and most personal film that Stanley Kubrick ever made, it’s remarkable more for the new directions in which it took him than for its accomplishments. more... |
| Electronic Telegraph |
pushes the boundaries of sex on screen to new limits while veering between erotica and melodrama. more... |
| Eyepiece |
rather than being sex, [it] is about sex--a film that explores this adult theme in a sensitive, mature, and thoughtful manner. more... |
| Flick Filosopher |
it's a tedious, preposterous story about how men use, misuse, and misunderstand female sexuality. And it's not even the least bit sexy. more... |
| Hollywood.com |
a Caligula-like feast for the 'Eyes.' more... |
| indieWIRE |
what we have is a troublesome, often brilliant work that is destined to build its reputation after years and multiple viewings. more... |
| New York Times |
danger and desire in a haunting bedroom odyssey. more... |
| Nitrate Online |
[One wonders] if Kubrick was losing interest, or was even losing touch with, the human condition. Eyes Wide Shut, the great director's last, black valentine to the world, is the film where the mysteries finally become enveloped themselves within mystery. more... |
| NY Rock |
[it] is not, for the most part, a movie about sex. On the contrary, it is about class distinction and the unyielding stratification of our culture. more... |
| Orlando Weekly |
the story on which Kubrick has chosen to hang [this] filth is a silly, incoherent mess that forms the basis of an ignominious capper to an otherwise sterling career. more... |
| Salon |
with its pro-monogamy moralizing, Kubrick's supposedly steamy last film is ultimately anti-erotic -- nothing more than an art-house version of an army training film. more... |
| Salon #2 |
Yes, "Eyes Wide Shut" is wooden and static. And wooden and static never looked so good. more... |
| Seattle Times |
as rich and strange and riveting as any journey [Kubrick has] taken us on, yet it's also familiar in a disquieting way. more... |
| SF Chronicle |
a sex movie this summer for grown-ups... [that] is about more than sex. It is about fidelity. more... |
| Spliced |
a complex and intimate study of a couple surviving a very big bump in their marriage. more... |
| This is London |
even at its most baffling, it is an astonishing work made with masterly control and at the same time a humanity that this director's detractors have insisted he did not possess. more... |
| USA Today |
he has managed to make a contemporary New York movie with Cruise and Kidman feel positively Old European. What a distinctive feat this is in a multiplex-driven era when too many comedies, cop pics and space adventures are edited to look and sound exactly the same. more... |
| World Socialist Web Site |
'Eyes Wide Shut' is an intriguing failure, a fitting culmination to the career of American director Stanley Kubrick, who died in March at the age of 70. more... |
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