Eyes Wide Shut

"Cruise in particular lays himself open in that fiercely committed way that he tries everything as an actor."

"A towering final achievement from one of cinema's greatest innovators."

"It creates a mesmerizing daydream of sexual fantasy."

"Mr. Kubrick left one more brilliantly provocative tour de force as his epitaph."

"This is personal filmmaking as well as dream poetry of the kind most movie commerce has ground underfoot..."

"A riveting, thematically probing, richly atmospheric and just occasionally troublesome work..."

"A cold, humourless, despairingly cynical (and thus typically Kubrickian) observation of human relationships."

"Guess what? It's not very erotic. Haunting, yes. Provocative, yes. Sexually graphic, oh, yeah. But arousing, it is not."

"It feels creaky, ancient, hopelessly out of touch, infatuated with the hot taboos of (Kubrick's) youth..."

"This 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."