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Movie Overview
Cast
• Jack Nicholson
• Shelley Duvall
• Scatman Crothers
Director
• Stanley Kubrick
MPAA Rating
R - Violence
The Shining (1980)

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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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3.5/5
"Not Kubrick's greatest work (let's be honest: entire sections of this film make no sense at all), but hey, it's creepy as hell."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

"Kubrick's mostly riveting attempt to rewrite the conventions of the horror genre"  Cinemania  Dan Jardine

4/4
"Kubrick’s showcase of abilities, both with the camera and his characters, are incomparably haunting."  Cinemaphile.org  David Keyes

B
"It's arguably the talented director's least appealing film, as it feels empty and soulless."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

4/4
"A deliberately paced, but endlessly creepy, horrifying motion picture."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

4/4
"It's the experience more so than the actual content of The Shining that radiates cold, anti-humanly indifferent terror."  Slant Magazine  Eric Henderson

"The Shining goes halfway toward bringing back Franz Kafka's understanding of real horror as the evil that lies within."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

4.5/5
"A mysterious, haunting, visual experience."  ToxicUniverse.com  Jeremiah Kipp

9/10
"Chilling, majestic piece of cinematic fright."  JoBlo's Movie Emporium  JoBlo

8/10
"By the second hour all hell breaks loose, and in the last few minutes it's sheer terror."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

3.5/4
"Though it could have been edited tighter, The Shining is still a great film."  Montreal Film Journal  Kevin N. Laforest

"If Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is not the best haunted house movie ever made, it is certainly among the most intricately constructed."  Not Coming to a Theater Near You  Leo Goldsmith

4/5
"Among that rare class of adaptations: it is as good as or better than the source material."  Goatdog's Movies  Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

9/10
"Strays from the source material, but still a creepy classic."  eFilmCritic.com  Scott Weinberg

"The idea of the haunted house is turned completely inside out"  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Shane Burridge
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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