The Shining

  • 15 (UNITED KINGDOM)
  • 1980


MOVIE IS credible terrifying methodical beautiful cinematic
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48 %
83 % Certified-fresh
$ 47 Million
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Positive Reviews 30
Negative reviews 1
Average Rating 4.6/5
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4.5
He is a master craftsman who explored subversive filmmaking while never losing sight of the commercial side of film. Den Of Geek
5.0
On the upside, it fleshes out the familys city life and includes an intriguing TV watching motif; on the downside, there are some daft scare shots and .. Time Out
5.0
The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them. Rogerebert
2.5
(Originally published by the Daily News on May 23, 1980.This story was written by Ernest Leogrande.) Ny Daily News
4.5
Critique: Chilling, majestic piece of cinematic fright, this film combines all the great elements of an intellectual thriller, with the grand vision o .. JoBlo
5.0
But the fact remains that horror films offer us a distinct pleasure the experience of fear in a safe place. Spirituality And Practice
5.0
Not a horror film in any traditional sense, but a perversely comic, occasionally frightening melodrama of intrafamilial rage, THE SHINING retains the .. Tv Guide
5.0
Kubrick embraces the hotels giant, brightly lit hallways, rather than the genres usual gloomy corridors, as a potential source of horror. Combust Ible Celluloid
2.5
If God can be a big black slab from outer space, why cant the devil be a bartender named Lloyd Chicago Reader
5.0
Trust Kubrick to be different: this horror film chills rather than shocks, works by stealth and provides nothing but eerie discomfort. Radio Times
2.5
Not banal brutality.The best of the classic fantasy films combined spooky effects with credible characters and believable situations. Cs Monitor
5.0
The genre within which the film is cast exerts too great a price. The Guardian
5.0
The film can alsoat least mostlybe read more as psychological horror than supernatural horror. Mountain X
5.0
But the longer running time does increase the sense, both terrible and exhilarating, of being trapped in Kubricks magnificent, malevolent nightmare, n .. Guardian
5.0
Nicholsons performance as the abusive father who is tipped over the edge is a thrillingly scabrous, black comic turn, and the final shot of his face i .. Guardian
5.0
Love it or hate it, Stanley Kubrick is bold enough to take a critically acclaimed horror novel and make it in to a story of his own madness and genius .. Cinema Crazed
5.0
Ostensibly a haunted house story, it manages to traverse a complex world of incipient madness, spectral murder and supernatural visions... and also ma .. Empire
4.0
The impact is extraordinary and even repeat viewers of the movie will enjoy the added terror that the 5.1 now brings. Bbc
2.5
The movie itself fails to augment this impressive shocker.We merely see it again, in three fragments from less effective camera angles. Washington Post
5.0
His film becomes as remarkable for its scale as for the suspense it generates, and all the more fascinating for setting grand aspirations beside petty .. The New York Times
5.0
For all of its methodical build up, The Shining delivers again and again as it enters its third act. The Movie Boy
3.8
Its too bad that the same level of excellence doesnt extend to the performances and screenplay. ReelViews
5.0
Like the film itself, its a discordant, disturbing and occasionally bombastic combination that achieves a strange kind of beauty thanks to impeccable .. Digital Spy
4.4
The Shining is terrifying for what it doesnt do.The movie relies on very little suspense (its clear the moment we see Jack Nicholsons arched eyebrows .. Larsen On Film
4.4
Its a brilliantly crafted and acted film that can get so terrifying! Montreal Film Journal
5.0
Even if The Shining no longer causes me to sprint out of the room, it remains a truly disturbing, upsetting, yet entertaining, and freakishly funny wa .. Streaming Quickflix
5.0
It can be understood, perhaps not fully but enough for one to take pleasure and challenge from it. Tony Mack
5.0
The film itself is the blankness this time.It is its own haunted house a rambling, rather hollow sounding edifice in which the real spooks are not the .. Bfi
3.0
But Kubrick has tried to mix a lot of classic horror elements, with only mixed success. People
5.0
With such performances, The Shining is so compelling that it can afford to leave its mysteries unresolved. The Nation
4.5
The Shining (1980) is creative director Stanley Kubricks intense, epic, gothic horror film masterpiece a beautiful, stylish work that distanced itself Film Site
5.0
Its a Gothic horror film with almost no shadows or darkness whatsoever, casting everything in a disturbingly even winter light. Wbur
4.5
If Stanley Kubricks The Shining is not the best haunted house movie ever made, it is certainly among the most intricately constructed. Not Coming
5.0
Kubricks mostly riveting attempt to rewrite the conventions of the horror genre Djardine Blogspot
1.5
I have always believed that horror should not be set aside as a separate film genre. Film Snobbery



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