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

| Apr 10, 2018

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

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

| Dec 14, 2014

At least Fellini pulled out the stops from the first minute when he wanted to get surreal. Here, realism fades into surrealism, then into outright foolishness. Morbidly paced foolishness.

| Dec 14, 2014

Cruise in particular lays himself open in that fiercely committed way that he tries everything as an actor.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2014

It's as rich and strange and riveting as any journey he's taken us on, yet it's also familiar in a disquieting way.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 13, 2014

The film does have that advertised haunting quality, and at least one performance from Kidman, in a supporting, but vital role that's as good as any we're likely to see this year.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 13, 2014

The price of Kubrick and Raphael's stubborn fidelity to the content if not the form of the novella is deadly.

| Dec 13, 2014

Maybe we should suspend the reductive question, "Is it any good or not?" and acknowledge that it's a fascinating, tantalising film that will continue to be argued about.

| Dec 13, 2014

Long and dull, despite the sumptuous production design and light-shimmering photography (and the orgy).

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 13, 2014

The result doesn't begin to live up to such pomp; indeed, it is so deliberately paced and so strangely devoid of emotional stakes that maybe it proves that too much control isn't such a good thing.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 13, 2014

Eyes Wide Shut is above all a masterpiece of sustained tone, a tightrope act that pays off in rich and unexpected ways.

| Dec 13, 2014

There is in Cruise a kind of passionate watchfulness and in Kidman a desperate and touching candor, and they keep drawing us past the narrative's improbabilities to its human heart.

| Dec 13, 2014

Eyes Wide Shut feels overblown, unresolved; in a better world it would not be the last work of an illustrious career. But this world is good enough to have given us all of Stanley Kubrick's films, and for that film lovers must give thanks.

| Dec 13, 2014

Eyes Wide Shut is no masterpiece, but it is endlessly fascinating.

| Jun 18, 2012

Kubrick's final film is a virtuoso study of looking and imagining, one that implicates the audience in the act of coveting.

| Original Score: 80/100 | May 29, 2010

Misunderstood as a psychosexual thriller, Stanley Kubrick's final film is actually more of an acidic comedy about how Tom Cruise fails to get laid.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 19, 2007

I don't know how a director whose central theme is the loss of humanity can be so uninterested in the minutiae of human speech and behavior.

| May 8, 2007

A 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.

Full Review | May 8, 2007

I kept my eyes wide open all through Eyes Wide Shut and saw more control-freak unreality than visual genius around the edges of the cluttered compositions.

| Apr 27, 2007