Eyes Wide Shut

Critical response

Critics objected chiefly to two features of the film. First, the movie's pacing is slow. While this may have been intended to convey the nature of dreaming, critics objected that it simply made actions and decisions laborious. Second, reviewers commented on the fact that Kubrick had shot his New York City scenes in a studio and that New York didn't "look like

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New York."

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Lee Siegel, writing in Harper's, felt that most critics responded mainly to the marketing campaign and were unable to address the film on its own terms.

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