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COMMUNITY RATING




This last cryptic, spellbinding addition to the Kubrick canon provides a stunning epiphany for the summer of the dirty joke. It's a dead-serious film about eros and mortality, one that flirts with the ridiculous but sustains its fundamental eeriness and gravity throughout. Tom Cruise, as a doctor caught up in a nighttime sexual odyssey of strange, dreamlike clarity, and Nicole Kidman, as the wife who sparks his jealousy by speaking frankly of her own libido, give themselves over body and soul to the filmmaker's meticulous and delicately balanced scheme. Given the dark themes and explicit nudity found here, the R rating (achieved by digital alterations to 65 seconds' worth of film) is a joke. — Janet Maslin, The New York Times
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