
The Guardian
Cruise in particular lays himself open in that fiercely committed way that he tries everything as an actor.
Full reviewFilmmaking giant Stanley Kubrick's last film, an erotic thriller with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. An argument over fidelity between Dr Bill Harford (Cruise) and his wife (Kidman) sends the physician on a dangerous night-long odyssey - a surreal succession of sexually charged encounters capped off by a clandestine visit to an upper-class orgy.
Cruise in particular lays himself open in that fiercely committed way that he tries everything as an actor.
Full reviewMr. Kubrick left one more brilliantly provocative tour de force as his epitaph.
Full reviewThis is personal filmmaking as well as dream poetry of the kind most movie commerce has ground underfoot...
Full reviewA riveting, thematically probing, richly atmospheric and just occasionally troublesome work...
Full reviewA cold, humourless, despairingly cynical (and thus typically Kubrickian) observation of human relationships.
Full reviewGuess what? It's not very erotic. Haunting, yes. Provocative, yes. Sexually graphic, oh, yeah. But arousing, it is not.
Full reviewIt feels creaky, ancient, hopelessly out of touch, infatuated with the hot taboos of (Kubrick's) youth...
Full reviewThis is nothing that can't be found in a Penthouse video, albeit shot by a man who had an almost mystical grasp of film's technical capabilities.
Full reviewEyes Wide Shut is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV.
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