Eyes Wide Shut

Name: Eyes Wide Shut
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Released: 1999

Stanley Kubrick

1999

3.77

Synopsis

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

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Cast

Tom CruiseDr. William Harford
Nicole KidmanAlice Harford
Sydney PollackVictor Ziegler
Julienne DavisMandy
Todd FieldNick Nightingale
Rade ŠerbedžijaMilich
Marie RichardsonMarion Nathanson
Vinessa ShawDomino
Alan CummingDesk Clerk
Sky du MontSandor Szavost

Recommendations

90
Film.com
It's Kubrick, for sure, and in often mesmerizing form.
90
The New York Times
Kubrick left one more brilliantly provocative tour de force as his epitaph.
88
ReelViews
In terms of power and effect, Eyes Wide Shut approaches (but does not surpass) Kubrick's vintage work - it is thought-provoking and unsettling.
80
Washington Post
It's painstakingly paced, but it's also entrancing.
80
Newsweek
If 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.
75
New York Daily News
Ultimately, Eyes Wide Shut doesn't rank among Kubrick's best work.
70
TNT RoughCut
It's a mind-blowing game, and all that nonsense about this being an erotic thriller was merely part of Kubrick's game.
50
Entertainment Weekly
The 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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