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 brain damage. Kidman also appeared in the family film "Paddington" (2014) as a villain. On 23 January, she starred in the Australian-Irish drama-thriller "Strangerland", which opened at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival to a "rapturous" audience response to Kidman's performance. Kidman also co-starred in the Jason Bateman-directed "The Family Fang", produced by Kidman's production company, Blossom Films, which premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Other projects include the biographical drama "Queen of the Desert", alongside James Franco, with Kidman portraying the lead role of traveller, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer and political officer Gertrude Bell and "Genius" alongside Colin