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 ...
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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, it...
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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, o...
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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 Ki...
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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 t...
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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 bei...
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The cultural critic Lee Siegel is known as something of a terror for his slashing, razor-sharp essays and reviews. His savage eloquence has ticked off a lot of folk, and his not entirely deserved r...
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The cultural critic Lee Siegel is known as something of a terror for his slashing, razor-sharp essays and reviews. His savage eloquence has ticked off a lot of folk, and his not entirely deserved r...
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Call it a regulatory miracle: Blind trusts set up by presidential candidates will get to see the light of day. The federal Office of Government Ethics wants former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a...
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It was supposed to be a ballet fit for a party boss: Winsome maids from the local collective farm prance around the stage carrying 5-foot long potatoes, while happy Soviet farmers celebrate yet ano...
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There’s an avid, glittery quality to Nicole Kidman’s eyes. Kubrick understood that she’s particularly suited to suggesting lewdness—“Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing”...
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There’s an avid, glittery quality to Nicole Kidman’s eyes. Kubrick understood that she’s particularly suited to suggesting lewdness—“Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing”...
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When Donald Trump completed his sprawling luxury development near Riverside Park, a few celebrity buyers headed over there to grab sleek high-rise apartments overlooking the Hudson River.
Talk-sho...
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Critical Review by Midge Decter
The Critic as Pugilist, Champion of High Art
