The Shining
Starring Jack Nicholson, The Shining follows a family that got stuck in an hotel turning out to be an homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing the family.
22 February 1938, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 July 1922, Kent, England, UK
1933, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
25 September 1958, London, England, UK
1968
20 February 1948, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
April 19, 2013
...above all a movie about spaces, and how few things are more frightening than not knowing which way to go.
May 08, 2007
Kubrick is after a cool, sunlit vision of hell, born in the bosom of the nuclear family, but his imagery -- with its compulsive symmetry and brightness -- is too banal to sustain interest, while the incredibly slack narrative line forestalls suspense.
May 22, 2016
Shock effect and graphic imagery don't compensate for the sense of pointlessness and even distaste that is left at the end of the movie.
February 17, 2016
If The Shining isn't trivial, it certainly encourages one to think that it is. But, perhaps, even that's a change for the better. Generally, it's the other way around.
October 21, 2010
Kubrick has made a movie that will have to be reckoned with on the highest level.
June 17, 2014
One of the best scary movies ever made, one of the best scary movies even imaginable.
May 08, 2007
The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them.
October 06, 2013
The Shining is like a near-miss auto accident: You don't know how scared you really were until you start shaking a few hours later.
April 30, 2009
As a ghost story and adaptation of the Stephen King novel, it's largely a failure. On the other hand, as an example of directorial bravura and as a study of madness and the unreliable narrator, it's a brilliant success.
May 13, 2013
The first time I saw Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, I had to turn it off during three key moments... Perhaps this time, I prayed, [it] would seem almost comically silly. Yeah, not so much.
December 21, 2016
Anyone coming to this work for the first time should be forewarned that the will generate more giggles (and perhaps a yawn or two), but there is absolutely nothing here to fear.
October 06, 2013
A masterpiece.
