Despite The Outlook’s advantages, a hysterical, bookworm, couch potato, chain smoking wife beats it. Kubrick did not intend to create a film about evil’s Achilles heel, but I left with that message. Be a mess, but fight.

Full Review | Jun 9, 2024

With an out-of-this-world cast, "The Shining" remains a cult film, even after 44 years and it’s ideal for a cold winter evening.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jan 18, 2024

The supernatural joins forces with psychosis in Stanley Kubrick’s superb adaptation of a Stephen King bestseller.

Full Review | Oct 20, 2023

Stanley Kubrick somehow manages to feel restrained and more ambitious than ever, delivering a harrowing and nightmarish case study in the impact of isolation and familial resentment.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 22, 2023

The Shining might be one of the most accessible classics to new viewers of today to understand why it is, in fact, one of the greatest and most influential horror films of all time. The ending is still mind-blowing after all these years.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Jul 24, 2023

Yet, The Shining, which was his third to last film, was akin to the genre films of his past such as Dr. Strangelove and 2001: A Space Odyssey where he explored the essence of humanity in a way unlike any other filmmaker.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 26, 2022

Kubrick sabotages his own thesis in the most knuckleheaded way conceivable: we can't be charged as accomplices in horror when there is no horror.

Full Review | Aug 16, 2022

Kubrick, however, doesn't really seem interested in the "shining" or in the hotel's supernatural forces generally... The result is a movie fatally flawed artistically.

Full Review | Jul 26, 2022

An unending roller coaster of terror that knows exactly how to get under the skin of anyone who watches it.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 5, 2022

There are a few terrific thrills, and some eerie moments of dislocation that only Kubrick could achieve, but most of the movie is unfelt, unscary, and bizarrely heavy-handed. It's the first pompous haunted-house movie.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2022

The terrifying aspect of The Shining, and its most enduring quality, is how Kubrick has trapped us in his cinematic maze to search without hope of ever discovering an adequate answer outside of our own making.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

He's always been the caretaker. Yet he's not fully aware, unlike Phil in Groundhog Day, who improves himself over what could be millions of years. (An aside from Harold Ramis about that story's duration.)

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 19, 2021

A true masterpiece.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 16, 2021

Each viewing reestablishes The Shining as one of the greatest horror movies of all-time.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Feb 10, 2021

I have never watched The Shining and not been blown away. It's an absolute clinic in atmosphere, tension, family drama, production design, cinematography, and so much more.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Dec 26, 2020

Primarily about building an atmosphere and a feeling of unease; something could pop out at any second, but it doesn't have to in order to startle viewers.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 7, 2020

(1980 Review) Aside from an occasional flash of brilliance it is tedious and, the fatal blow, not all that scary.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 2, 2020

It just didn't speak to me. I thought it was way too long and a little too slow in pace.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 10, 2019

One of the best movies of all time...my favorite Kubrick film.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 10, 2019

...one of cinematic history's most lauded horror films.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 19, 2019