SOURCE: Bradshaw, Peter. “It Looks Like the Eyes Almost Have It.” Manchester Guardian Weekly (22 September 1999): 16.

In the following positive review of Eyes Wide Shut, the 1999 film based on Schnitzler's Dream Story, Bradshaw asserts that the film is faithful to Schnitzler's story, except that it loses the important element of the characters' Jewish identity.

Stanley Kubrick's extraordinary last testament, Eyes Wide Shut, has effortlessly attained one of the criteria of a certain type of classic. It is in a genre, if not a league, of its own, this genre being best described as Manhattan porn gothic. It has left critics uneasily aware of the possibility that it is not a masterpiece, but rather a grotesque, preposterous flop that embarrassingly damages one of the most unimpeachable reputations in cinema.

However, it is the very preposterousness of Eyes Wide Shut that is the key to the achievement it represents: it has...