Eyes Wide Shut

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Dominick No matter the debate over just how complete it is or what it’s trying to say, Eyes Wide Shut remains a remarkable achievement in a filmography stacked with them. It perfectly encapsulates the many sides and moods of Stanley Kubrick, flitting with dreamlike sensibilities, dark humor, stark cinematography and thematic ambiguity Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 12/24/24 Full Review Rene M Greatest film of all time Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/13/24 Full Review Kira G The most boring, pretentious, dragged out movie I've ever seen in my life. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/16/25 Full Review helder f The movie and the story are fine. It feels a bit incomplete as though some of its best parts were removed away, and what remains is perhaps not enough… it seems like a movie that had everything to be fairly deeper was shaped into another Hollywood construct. Tom Cruise makes a great job playing a self conceited man who makes sure that everyone know he’s a doctor…, a bit obnoxious -whether most of it comes from the character or from the actor himself. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/01/25 Full Review DanTheMan 2 I knew next to nothing about Eyes Wide Shut going in, with the sole exception being that Tom Cruise apparently couldn't walk through a door correctly, what I was rewarded with is Kubrick's intense study of the human psyche, an erotic thriller in a smooth, neon-lit world and its unhappy residents that inhabit it. It's compelling to the point of addictive detailing how unsexual sex is and how sexy almost having sex is, it's a world where money talks and class supplants everything. The culmination of a career spent telling stories of every stripe; it's at once horrifying, sexy and thrilling and it explores a world that is unlike anything that could exist outside the mind of Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick's brilliantly choreographed one-take scenes create a near-hypnotic atmosphere of commingled desire and dread. The film's depiction of sexual depravity and amorality could easily venture into the realm of camp in the hands of a lesser filmmaker, however, Kubrick depicts primal evil in a way that somehow makes it seem deeply terrifying. It's not the steamy sexual extravaganza you'd think, but it is provocative in its own tormented way, a valentine to monogamy. The cast all seem thoroughly exhausted, I wouldn't go out of my way to say this was anyone's finest hour but the complete mental anguish that Cruise portrays is at least worthy of a mention. For all its praiseworthy technical elements Eyes Wide Shut doesn't really have enough conviction to fully stir the loins or brain, one that feels emotionally cold and glacial in its pacing, but as Kubrick's final coda, it is sure to put you under its rapturous spell. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/28/24 Full Review Markus S A good weird movie for me it happens when the storytelling presents untypical or unconvincing elements and they manage you to like them; this movie is weird but in another way, the storytelling is carried more by the deep thoughts of everyone's actions, it dives so deep into the main topic, that suggests a different type of movie trajectory, which can be boring for some. For me it wasn't boring, but neither was as meaningful or important as some other works from Kubrick. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/19/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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