The duality of being a U.S. Marine—to train to kill but also be expendable—is captured with cold, hard irony in Kubrick’s clinical take on the (Vietnam) war movie.
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Full Metal Jacket (1987)
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Lolita (1962)
With incredible restraint and backed by all-round excellent performances, Kubrick’s exploration into a revolting form of sexual obsession is remarkable for its implicit portrayal of an erotic relationship between a (step)father and his daughter.
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Fear and Desire (1953)
Kubrick’s much-maligned first feature, while a sketchy exercise, is still (barely) watchable as it ruminates about war and existence, albeit in too self-important and vacuous a manner.
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Shining, The (1980)
A masterpiece of baroque horror cinema that continues to haunt through tone, technique and characterisation.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Kubrick’s final film is a calculated psychosexual trip filled with paranoia, moral depravity and sexual fantasies and excesses.
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Continue reading →Kubrick’s understated and underrated costume-drama is, to me, his greatest accomplishment, and possibly the most beautiful period film ever made.
Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
Kubrick’s dystopian masterpiece frustrates, angers, provokes, and ultimately floors you in ways unlike that of other great films.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Kubrick’s most influential film still remains way ahead of its time and is arguably the greatest sci-fi film ever made.
Paths of Glory (1957)
One of the most potent anti-war films ever made… so powerful it makes your blood boil at how some humans can be so despicable.
Killing, The (1956)
Kubrick treats the crime-noir genre in a revolutionary non-linear storytelling way in what is one of the most effective American heist films ever made.
