Stanley Kubrick brilliant. Then the film degenerates into a masterpiece." Roger Ebert was not particularly impressed with it, awarding it a mediocre 2.5 out of 4. He concluded: "Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" is more like a book of short stories than a novel", a "strangely shapeless film from the man whose work usually imposes a ferociously consistent vision on his material". Kubrick's final film was "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999), starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a Manhattan couple on a sexual odyssey. Tom Cruise portrays a doctor who witnesses a bizarre masked quasireligious orgiastic ritual at a country mansion, a
Nicole Kidman filmography garnered her a nomination for Best Actress at the British Academy Film Awards. For her role as writer Virginia Woolf in the drama "The Hours" (2002) she became the first Australian to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2003, Kidman starred in Lars von Trier's "Dogville", the drama "The Human Stain", and the epic war drama "Cold Mountain". The following year, she appeared in the sci-fi comedy film "The Stepford Wives" (2004), and the drama "Birth" (2004). Four years later, Kidman reunited with Luhrmann on the historical drama "Australia". In 2010, she starred in the drama "Rabbit Hole"