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Eyes Wide Shut.
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In the following review, Decter derides Eyes Wide Shut as callow, insensible, and pretentious.
In response to an unbearably stuffy declaration by her husband, a woman, high on pot, details for him her...
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In the following essay, Gross discusses the major motifs of Eyes Wide Shut and places the film in context with several classic movies from the 1960s.
“Art treats appearance as appearance, its a...
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In the following negative assessment, Kauffmann deems Eyes Wide Shut “a catastrophe—in both the popular sense and the classical sense of the end of a tragedy.”
In the spring, of 1...
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In the following review of Eyes Wide Shut, Rainer offers a mixed assessment of Kubrick's movie.
Eyes Wide Shut is being billed as more than a movie, more than even a Tom Cruise-and-Nicole Kidma...
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In the following positive assessment of Eyes Wide Shut, Siegel denounces the overwhelming negative reaction to Kubrick's final film, maintaining that “our official arbiters of culture ha...
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In the following review, Taubin addresses the flaws of Eyes Wide Shut, maintaining that the movie was unfinished, but compelling on several levels.
To be blunt about it, it's impossible at this...
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In the following negative review, Whitehouse considers Eyes Wide Shut staid and dated.
The dream interpreter is a kind of detective, and given the orgy of opinion about Eyes Wide Shut currently being ...
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Critical Review by Midge Decter
