They do still make 'em like this

Rating: Null/10 (20 July 1999)

Maybe only Stanley Kubrick could have made a movie that is both so expansive and engrossingly quirky as Eyes Wide Shut. But thank goodness he did.
It is, lamentably, the last film we'll ever see from the legendary director. As for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman -- they could stop while they're ahead. Sydney Pollack's supporting role is icing on the cake.
It's fortunate that the guts of the movie were kept under wraps as long as they were because the story itself is not only suspenseful, but actually about the suspense of the mind: our acid jealousies, the personal dangers we impose on ourselves, morbid curiosity, and crippling insecurities. A bold, stirring score intensifies all of the above.
It's full of enough pregnant pauses to repopulate the earth, enough humor to keep 'em all chuckling. And just weird enough to make them forget about work on Monday.