A brilliant conclusion to an indelible career.

Rating: Null/10 (17 July 1999)

The best film I've seen so far this year. This is a strict adults-only film, despite the R rating, that is brilliantly-crafted and shot, honest and penetrating performances by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, and- as with "2001" and "Clockwork Orange"- has a hypnotic use of music. The controversial orgy sequence is disturbingly erotic and sexual and one of the greatest sequences of Kubrick's career. And the psychological richness of the film is enough to make me want to see it again, which I surely will.