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Rating: 2/10 (2 February 2015)

I've always been a Kubrick fan, but EWS is a long-winded, meandering dud. Every scene except for the masquerade is excruciatingly overlong, and talk, talk, talk. At least a half hour could easily be excised. Worst of all, there is no dramatic buildup - it drags the viewer to a head-scratching anticlimax that makes you want to scream, I sat there for well over two hours, and then it simply ends? As for the supposedly controversial sexuality, it feels more like you've been groped by a blue-gloved TSA agent. If you want to introduce a friend about why you're a Kubrickian, start off with Dr. Strangelove or A Clockwork Orange. EWS isn't even close to being entertaining, let alone provocative. Wish it were otherwise.