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Eyes Wide Shut

1999

Stanley Kubrick

Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson ...

6.8

64,865

Drama. Mystery A doctor (Tom Cruise) becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter after his wife (Nicole Kidman) admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met and chastising him for dishonesty in not admitting to his own fantasies. This sets him off into unfulfilled encounters with a dead patient's daughter and a hooker. But when he visits a nightclub, where a pianist friend Nick Nightingale (Todd Field) is playing, he learns about a secret ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"[It] is not so much an erotic drama as a psychological probing of marriage, desire, jealousy and sexual paranoia (...) A must-see for Kubrick acolytes (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"For adult audiences, it creates a mesmerizing daydream of sexual fantasy (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"[It] turns into a series of haphazard revelations that come to very little."	NEG
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"You experience this 159-minute movie at his deliberate pace and from his oddly distanced perspective. The effect is disorienting but mesmerizing."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"As an essay on the nature of sexuality it is vulgar and pretentious, but taken as a bizarre, hallucinatory black comic fable about married life, it is plausible and enjoyable"	NEU
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Every shot and camera angle was selected with great care (...) For those who view cinema as something more substantive than an evening's diversion, the release of 'Eyes Wide Shut' is an event (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"It's empty of ideas, which is fine, but it's also empty of heat.	NEG
United Kingdom	Ed Potton The Times	"There’s a schlockiness to it and the infamous orgy scene is about as sexy as a tax return. Yet there’s a fascination in watching a real-life married couple playing a fictional one (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"This is personal filmmaking as well as dream poetry of the kind most movie commerce has ground underfoot, and if a better studio release comes along this year I'll be flabbergasted (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"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."	NEU
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"Fascinatingly flawed (...) It lacks the morbidity to pass as a Buñuelian satire, and is too stately and serious to succeed as a commercial enterprise (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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