Kubrick's final film is a fitting end to a remarkable career.

Rating: 10/10 (1 August 1999)

"Eyes Wide Shut" is the most mesmerizing and haunting film Stanley Kubrick has ever made, and to find a better entry in his filmography, one would be forced to go back to 1968, and his magnum opus, "2001: a space odyssey". The performances by leads Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman represent the best work either actor has ever done, and, as always with Kubrick, the direction is masterful. Also characteristic of Kubrick's best work, the themes present here are many and complex. Not only is this Kubrick's best film in thirty years (and that itself is certainly saying a lot), but it's also his most fascinating, his most intriguing, his most confusing, and the one which best lends itself to critical and intellectual analysis. In death, the greatest of all directors has left us with one final work which can be discussed and debated and puzzled over, and, hopefully, appreciated for a long, long time to come. "Outstanding" doesn't even begin to describe it.