Eyes Wide Shut still has an eerie mood that is purely Kubrickian. His smooth, neon-lit world and its unhappy residents are compelling, even addictive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2024

Eyes Wide Shut is Kubrick doing Kubrick but it's not quite a masterpiece compared to earlier works, nor is it an erotic thriller.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 16, 2024

A fascinating look at obsession and desire that only Kubrick could craft.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2024

Kubrick's final opus is a chilly sexual odyssey featuring two stunning confessional scenes by Nicole Kidman. Cruise is game to be the butt of the joke as the protagonist who wants sex but never has it. Gorgeous, moody, and a perfect final line of dialogue

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 10, 2024

A film detailing how unsexual sex is and how sexy almost having sex is.

| Original Score: 80/100 | Jul 24, 2022

The director's most emotionally confronting picture.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 18, 2022

Eyes Wide Shut is the perfect embodiment of capitalist Christmas tendencies, wherein money talks and class supplants everything.

| Sep 9, 2021

Eyes Wide Shut is a beautiful film. The set design, costumes, actors, and cinematography are all beautiful. Kubrick's camera seems to seek out beautiful things.

| Apr 1, 2021

Eyes Wide Shut feels like the culmination of a career spent telling stories of every stripe; it's at once horrifying, sexy and thrilling and it explores a world that is unlike anything that could exist outside the mind of Stanley Kubrick.

| Jan 7, 2021

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) is legendary director Stanley Kubrick's highly-anticipated, last completed film. It was titled 'Eyes Wide Shut' to imply self-contradictory opposites: at first being exposed or tempted, and then reflexively turning away...

| Original Score: A+ | Sep 29, 2019

Eyes Wide Shut has gotten better with age. It was, in Nietzsche's word, untimely; its first audiences failed to understand it, while its real contemporaries had to bide their time.

| Jul 11, 2019

Eyes Wide Shut reveals new truths with each viewing.

| Mar 26, 2019

A film so willing to explore the limitations of masculinity, the limitations of heterosexuality, and the limitations of what fantasy looks like for a man who has none, is a decidedly interesting, and queer, work with which to end one's filmmaking career.

| Feb 28, 2019

This is not the steamy sexual extravaganza we have been promised, but it is provocative. In its own tormented way, Eyes Wide Shut is a valentine to monogamy.

| Feb 22, 2019

It was a knockout in the first round. Kubrick's fluid camerawork lulled them.

| Nov 29, 2018

This is, one might argue, what the audience has paid to see and what they've always wanted to see: the then-most famous couple in the world, at home in both the literal and figurative sense, unguarded and au naturel.

| Oct 27, 2018

In Eyes Wide Shut nothing works.

| Aug 17, 2018

Kubrick's final film is unique in his oeuvre for concluding on a note of apparent affirmation.

| Apr 10, 2018

A delicious, deadpan farce about the fragile masculine ego.

| Mar 2, 2017

This is finally a film that is better at mood than substance, that has its strongest hold on you when it's making the least amount of sense.

| Dec 14, 2014