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100Eyes Wide Shut still towers above most of the movies out there, immersing the viewer in a web of emotional complexity, at once raw and personal and, at times, theatrically overcooked.
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100A spellbinder: provocatively conceived, gorgeously shot and masterfully executed.
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100A 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.
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100Above all a masterpiece of sustained tone, a tightrope act that pays off in rich and unexpected ways.
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100As the late Stanley Kubrick's swansong, it fills the bill magnificently.
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90It's Kubrick, for sure, and in often mesmerizing form.
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90A movie with the power and quality of dreams, where reality merges into symbolism and oddly juxtaposed elements crystallize into a single, electrifying whole.
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90Kubrick left one more brilliantly provocative tour de force as his epitaph.
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90A 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.
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88The 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.
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88In terms of power and effect, Eyes Wide Shut approaches (but does not surpass) Kubrick's vintage work - it is thought-provoking and unsettling.
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80While both the novel and the film are weighted in favor of Bill's (Cruise) character, it's Kidman who gives the film's standout performance.
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80Makes 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]
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80If some nagging sense of anachronism, a bit too much Freudian Vienna in his postmodern New York, prevents Eyes Wide Shut from being at the top of his list, Kubrick's 13th and last film is his most humane.
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80It's painstakingly paced, but it's also entrancing.
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80This is a remarkably gripping, suggestive, and inventive piece of storytelling that, like Kubrick's other work, is likely to grow in mystery and intensity over time.
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78These scenes of debauchery and lust that make up the film's centerpiece are among some of the most powerful and disturbing ever put to film.
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75Brilliantly filmed in his usual transfixing style, Kubrick's last movie pleads for alertness to the temptations that assail human nature from within and without.
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75Ultimately, Eyes Wide Shut doesn't rank among Kubrick's best work.
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75Totally absorbing even when it, too, strays.
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75Whatever it is, it's totally Kubrickian: Its scenes have both an edge and an extraordinary visual perfection that could come from no other filmmaker.
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70It's a mind-blowing game, and all that nonsense about this being an erotic thriller was merely part of Kubrick's game.
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It's shocking only in its banality, impotence and utter lack of heat.
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63Works more as an object of pop curiosity than as a work of popular entertainment.
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60It's good -- when it's not adrift in an absence of meaning.
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50Eyes Wide Shut is Stanley Kubrick's Hindenberg.
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50The 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.
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It is, as his films usually are, dense, complex, and challenging. It is also, sad to say, ponderous, often inscrutable, and ultimately not much fun.
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40Feels like a rough draft at best.
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30A laughable disaster: an agonizingly long, perversely dull, childishly conceived fantasia on marital sexual angst that could only have been made by someone (like Kubrick).
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30A somnolent load of wank.
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20Kubrick's much-anticipated final film boils down to the most elaborate monogamy lecture ever.
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20It's empty of ideas, which is fine, but it's also empty of heat.
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