Eyes Wide Shut

Name: Eyes Wide Shut
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance
Released: July 16, 1999
Duration: 159 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise

1999

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Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: July 16, 1999 | NC-17

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise

Summary: A doctor (Tom Cruise) becomes obsessed with having a sexual experience after his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), confesses to having fantasies about a random servicemen she briefly encountered over a year ago.

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance

Rating: NC-17

Runtime: 159 min

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Liam Lacey

Eyes 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. Read full review

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Michael Wilmington

A spellbinder: provocatively conceived, gorgeously shot and masterfully executed. Read full review

Film.com Sean Means

A movie with the power and quality of dreams, where reality merges into symbolism and oddly juxtaposed elements crystallize into a single, electrifying whole.

Marc Savlov

These 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. Read full review

William Arnold

Whatever it is, it's totally Kubrickian: Its scenes have both an edge and an extraordinary visual perfection that could come from no other filmmaker. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

It's good -- when it's not adrift in an absence of meaning. Read full review

Stephen Hunter

It's empty of ideas, which is fine, but it's also empty of heat. Read full review

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ManolisS.

Oct 1, 2006

One of the best films ever! The most addictive film, the closing of a genius watch it again and again.

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Ziphias

Feb 20, 2021

So far, this is my second favourite film from Kubrick. Criminally underrated and so inviting.

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ryancarroll88

Aug 27, 2010

"Eyes Wide Shut" is one of those movies that reaffirms the study of film - it's a masterpiece that gets better with every viewing; if you didn't like it the first time, watch it again and you're bound to find something new.

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timone

Mar 5, 2019

Eyes Wide Shut is one of the last Stanley Kubrick films he ever made since he was alive, which is interesting because he is one of the greatest masterful directors that everyone can count on. His work is immense where his directing style and cinematography can entertain viewers who have seenEyes Wide Shut is one of the last Stanley Kubrick films he ever made since he was alive, which is interesting because he is one of the greatest masterful directors that everyone can count on. His work is immense where his directing style and cinematography can entertain viewers who have seen the beautiful filmmaking and what he was going for. As far as I love Stanley Kubrick as a director, this is one of the raunchiest. Much like how A Clockwork Orange shocked people in the theatre worldwide and how controversial is was, this movie went on a whole new level when there is amount of sex in this, I will tell you how. Tom Cruise is Dr. William Harford is on his sexually natured adventures when he is shocked when his wife, Alice played by Nicole Kidman, reveals that she had contemplated having an affair a year earlier. So he went out on his night-long adventures including the only place and the only scene which I will never forget. He who witnessed a weird bizarre masked quasireligious orgiastic ritual at a country mansion, a discovery which would later threaten his life. And that is the long scene which I'll never forget and it will be embarrassing. Take a wild guess? "Masked orgies". This movie is something that people don't really understand but if they actually did, newcomers who are interested like me may know what to expect and thinking about what was going on at what Bill went through. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are both good in this and they played good characters at what they're going through on their sexual relationship. They both got married and they starred at Days of Thunder and Far and Away and now they're divorced. The only thing I almost forgot to mention is that the film is slow-paced because the way it was slow-paced, the more the scenes are long to go on for, cause the film does sometimes have some long shots and they do those scenes really well. Much like that I've seen A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket and I love the hell out of them and Eyes Wide Shut is a very underrated drama film filled with erotic scenes, slow-paced scenes, thrills and mystery. Stanley Kubrick did a tremendous job making this film and it will be fondly remembered by anyone who is a fan of his work. And may the greatest director of all time rest in peace for he had experienced of making his last film which is impressively great, Eyes Wide Shut.… Expand

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DavidH.

Dec 20, 2006

Yes, it has its faults, yes Cruise and Kidman aren't very good, yes it's implausible that Bill could simply have been allowed into the morgue with no ID check. But I'll be damned if the film doesn't work as an intriguing mystery. Provocative, symbolically valid and Yes, it has its faults, yes Cruise and Kidman aren't very good, yes it's implausible that Bill could simply have been allowed into the morgue with no ID check. But I'll be damned if the film doesn't work as an intriguing mystery. Provocative, symbolically valid and altogether unique. Is it maybe a tacit indictment of the real-life personae of the leading couple? Whatever Kubrick's intentions, this is possibly one of his best films.… Expand

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sergtona

Apr 9, 2011

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This film was very blame in its firsts years, someone says that its the most simple project of Kubrick. Es, anyway, a wonderful movie, very similar of the films that the director did in his first works. In my opinion, the two and something hours that this movie longs, are pretty short, because it ends of a very cut way, but also very mystical, and we don't know if what the doctor have seen was just a dream or it was really what happened. Charming sensual… Expand

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SeyeerGame

Feb 25, 2022

одним словом - порнуха в ролевой секции, какое-то абсолютно странное кино и очень не похожее на стиль стэнли кубрика

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