Stanley Kubrick’s last film, in which then-married Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman play a couple whose marriage is being nibbled at by fear and suspicion, was dismissed by many critics for being too cold and shunned by audiences for being too explicit. Both reactions miss the point; by portraying marriage as something so valuable that jealousy, misunderstandings, errant fantasies, and perhaps even betrayal shouldn’t shatter it, Eyes Wide Shut may be the most moral movie to ever show this much skin.
