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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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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
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