Vivian Kubrick in "" (1968), as a guest at Bryan's birthday party in "Barry Lyndon" (1975), as a guest on a ballroom couch in "The Shining" (1980), and as a news camera operator in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987). In her late teens, Kubrick directed, filmed, and edited a half-hour documentary for the BBC, "The Making of "The Shining"", which is included on all DVDs and many videotapes of the film. She composed the score to his next film, "Full Metal Jacket", using the pseudonym Abigail Mead. She also shot 18 hours of footage for a documentary on the making of the film,
Full Metal Jacket reviews. Reviewers generally reacted favorably to the cast, Ermey in particular, and the film's first act in recruit training, but several reviews were critical of the latter part of the film set in Vietnam and what was considered a "muddled" moral message in the finale. It ranks on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills. Richard Corliss of "Time" called the film a "technical knockout", praising "the dialogue's wild, desperate wit; the daring in choosing a desultory skirmish to make a point about war's pointlessness", and "the fine, large performances of almost every actor", believing, at the time, that Ermey and D'Onofrio