Kubrick's magnificently capacious spooker bears the same relation to standard-issue horror as Eyes Wide Shut does to eroticism, writes Peter Bradshaw

Read the Empire Movie review of The Shining. Ostensibly a haunted house story, it manages to traverse a complex world of incipient madness,...

Who would have ever thought to pair up Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King? But weird as it sounds, this creepy thriller works. Nicholson takes his famil

Stanley Kubrick's cold and frightening "The Shining" challenges us to decide: Who is the reliable observer? Whose idea of events can we trust? In the opening

R • 2 hours 22 min • 1980

The Shining is a curious motion picture. On the one hand, 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 ...

All of Stanley Kubrick’s films – be it ‘The Killing’ or ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ – demand to be seen on a big screen. They’re about people trapped in huge, indifferent

The film is a radical distillation of its source novel’s densely stuffed ghosts-and-gore imagery.

Originally published in the Guardian on 2 October 1980: The tale of a man so isolated within a void of his own making that even bloody madness seems an escape

Clipping found in The Boston Globe published in Boston, Massachusetts on 6/14/1980. The Shining*

Movie Review | Kubrick's 'Shining': A Freudian's Picnic. By Kevin Thomas, Times Staff Writer. May 23, 1980.