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starstarstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstarstar Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune
starstarstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstarstarstar Todd McCarthy - Variety
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstarstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstarstar Jeff Millar - Houston Chronicle
starstarstar Rod Dreher - NY Post
starstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
star Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer

Profound, intimate, provocative, richly ambiguous and spiked with sudden or sustained bursts of deeply knowing humor, [it] confirms again the genius of the late Stanley Kubrick

- Susan Stark

That the last film from one of the great artists of the century should be so weak, so aimless, so stilted and overblown – this is tragic

- Margaret McGurk

Eyes Wide Shut

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Recently shocked by his wife’s confession of secret desires, a man spends a night exploring a sexual underworld and gets more involved than he planned. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Todd Field, Marie Richardson, Alan Cumming, Madison Eginton, Thomas Gibson. Director: Stanley Kubrick (1999, R)

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