This is the only Kubrik review I will ever do in IMDb.

Rating: Null/10 (24 June 2002)

I consider Kubrik to be the greatest film director of them all. I have seen every film of his starting from Killer's Kiss onward. After tonight, the only film of his I have not seen at least twice is Killer's Kiss (which I had the good fortune to find playing in a film theatre only two blocks away from my hotel room in Paris).
Barry Lyndon only confirms my beliefs. Kubrik IS the greatest (sorry, Cassius). Kubrik always respected my ability to interpret, to think and uncover, to rise to the challenge.
The pacing of Barry Lyndon is intoxicating, taking its' time to explore what otherwise would be blink-and-miss at the hand of the majority of film directors, Russians like Eisenstein and Tarkovsky excluded. The lighting and usage of musical score are in a Universe of their own, comparable to nothing else ever done, outside rank or classification. The complexity of storytelling navigates in shades of grey, leaving as villains only circumstance and poor judgement by the characters involved, an approach sorely missed in MOST of modern cinema, where melodrama seems to be the order of the day. While Barry Lyndon is a film with morality, it is by no means moralistic.
In short, Barry Lyndon very much reflects real life, presented as a unique and grand cinematic experience. My only regret is that I have not seen this film on a 90mm proyector screen, where it belongs.
Thank you, Stanley. I treasure the king's ransom of art that you left us and miss you every day.