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Eyes Wide Shut

1999

Stanley Kubrick

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

6.8

64,953

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 ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		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)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"For adult audiences, it creates a mesmerizing daydream of sexual fantasy (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"[It] turns into a series of haphazard revelations that come to very little."
		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."
		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"
		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)"
		Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"It's empty of ideas, which is fine, but it's also empty of heat.
		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)"
		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)"
		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."
		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)"

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