Kubrick In His Final Days

Rating: 8/10 (30 March 2015)

A New York City doctor (Tom Cruise), who is married to an art curator (Nicole Kidman), pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.
At this point (2015), I have seen all of Kubrick's work and love most of it. But "Eyes Wide Shut" was one of my earlier Kubrick excursions, following the cult classics. At the time, responses seemed to be mixed. While I instantly loved it, others found it to be hard to handle.
If anything, my opinion over the last fifteen years has only solidified this as being among Kubrick's best. We start out with some intrigue, then get into a light philosophical conversation about infidelity... before going head-on into a conspiracy theory that somehow still makes sense. This is a grand adventure, much larger in scale than anything else he had done. And he pulls it off brilliantly.