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In Memoriam: Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) | by Stanley Kauffmann
Eyes Wide Shut is a catastrophe—in both the popular sense and the classical sense of the end of a tragedy. Everything in Kubrick that had been worming through his career, through his ego, and through his extraordinary talent swells and devours this last film.