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The Shining

1980

Stanley Kubrick

Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers ...

8.2

149,278

Horror Writer Jack Torrance takes a job as a winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the remote Colorado mountains. He moves in, along with his wife Wendy and son Danny, in the hope that the isolation will cure his writer’s block. But as the weather isolates them, Jack descends into madness. And then apparitions from the hotel’s past appear, imploring Jack to kill his family.

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Meticulously detailed and never less than fascinating, 'The Shining' may be the first movie that ever made its audience jump with a title that simply says 'Tuesday'."	POS
United States	Richard Schickel Time	"Kubrick has made a movie that will have to be reckoned with on the highest level"	POS
United States	Gary Arnold The Washington Post	"I can't recall a more elaborately ineffective scare movie"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A film where the actors themselves vibrate with unease (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Anne Billson The Guardian	"The director’s horror masterpiece deserves its cult status, but now after its motifs have been quoted endlessly for years, its thrills have worn thin"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Ostensibly a haunted house story, it manages to traverse a complex world of incipient madness, spectral murder and supernatural visions... and also makes you jump (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"With everything to work with, director Stanley Kubrick has teamed with jumpy Jack Nicholson to destroy all that was so terrifying about Stephen King's bestseller"	NEG
United Kingdom	Ben Walters Time Out	"A masterpiece (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Emma Dibdin Digital Spy	"Each meticulously composed frame (...) is designed to breathe hostility into its location (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	New York Daily News	"[It] takes two and a half hours to go nowhere (...) With the formidable amount of technical work represented by this movie, it’s painful to see it produce so little"	NEG
United States	Eric Henderson Slant	"[It] enhances everything that's legitimately unnerving about King's book (...) Themes and plot, as with many Kubrick films, are in service of the filmic form, not vice versa (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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