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Movie Overview
Cast
Eduardo Noriega
Penélope Cruz
Director
Alejandro Amenábar
MPAA Rating
R
Open Your Eyes (1997)
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4/5
"If Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch had collaborated on a project, the result might have been something like Open Your Eyes.""
Filmcritic.com
Blake French
"Alejandro Amenábar's film is part psychological thriller, part virtual reality romance, part philosophical investigation."
Philadelphia City Paper
Cynthia Fuchs
74/100
"Amenabar skilfully manipulates the time-space continuum, while skipping between reality and fantasy often enough to keep the audience in a constant state of vertigo."
Apollo Guide
Dan Jardine
C
"I felt uninvolved, finding myself drifting into my own dreamworld instead of the filmmaker's."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
2.5/4
"A resonating portrait of millennial angst that ultimately amounts to little more than a preposterous guessing game."
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
9/10
"While it will not get the kind of wide release necessary to make a big splash in this country, those who see it will not quickly forget the experience."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
4/5
"Alejandro Amenabar's psychothriller is a dark dish Cruise and Crowe later turned to plain Vanilla."
Netflix
James Rocchi
4/4
"Amenabar, at 25, has created a film that deserves comparison to Hitchcock's best work."
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
4/4
"A masterpiece."
Montreal Film Journal
Kevin N. Laforest
B+
"a startling debut from an eye-opening new talent"
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
"What makes it all work is Amenabar's smoothly assured handling of the material, which is always in danger of becoming too silly to bother with."
Film Journal International
Maitland McDonagh
3.5/4
"The visually stunning product is no less absorbing and haunting, not to mention surprisingly moving."
TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
4.5/5
"The ending makes us catch our breath not because it's so clever, but because there's so much to the film even without the final revelation."
Shadows on the Wall
Rich Cline
3.5/5
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