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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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OFCS Rating: 93% Fresh
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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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OFCS Rating: 93% Fresh
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