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The Shining

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Frustrated writer Jack Torrance takes a job as the winter caretaker at the opulently ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. His young son possesses a psychic abilities known as 'The Shining' and is able to see see things from the past and future, such as the ghosts who inhabit the hotel. Some time after settling in, the family is trapped in the hotel by a snowstorm, and Jack gradually becomes influenced by a supernatural presence, descends into madness, and ultimately attempts to murder his wife and son.
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CRITICS OF "The Shining"
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May 13, 2013

The first time I saw Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, I had to turn it off during three key moments... Perhaps this time, I prayed, [it] would seem almost comically silly. Yeah, not so much.
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Guardian
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February 17, 2016

If The Shining isn't trivial, it certainly encourages one to think that it is. But, perhaps, even that's a change for the better. Generally, it's the other way around.
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TIME Magazine
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October 21, 2010

Kubrick has made a movie that will have to be reckoned with on the highest level.
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LarsenOnFilm
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April 19, 2013

...above all a movie about spaces, and how few things are more frightening than not knowing which way to go.
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ReelViews
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April 30, 2009

As a ghost story and adaptation of the Stephen King novel, it's largely a failure. On the other hand, as an example of directorial bravura and as a study of madness and the unreliable narrator, it's a brilliant success.
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Film Snobbery
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December 21, 2016

Anyone coming to this work for the first time should be forewarned that the will generate more giggles (and perhaps a yawn or two), but there is absolutely nothing here to fear.
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New York Daily News
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May 22, 2016

Shock effect and graphic imagery don't compensate for the sense of pointlessness and even distaste that is left at the end of the movie.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
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June 17, 2014

One of the best scary movies ever made, one of the best scary movies even imaginable.
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Chicago Reader
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May 08, 2007

Kubrick is after a cool, sunlit vision of hell, born in the bosom of the nuclear family, but his imagery -- with its compulsive symmetry and brightness -- is too banal to sustain interest, while the incredibly slack narrative line forestalls suspense.
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People Magazine
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October 06, 2013

The Shining is like a near-miss auto accident: You don't know how scared you really were until you start shaking a few hours later.
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Time Out
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October 06, 2013

A masterpiece.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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May 08, 2007

The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them.
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