Stanley Kubrick Movie Rating: ‘2001’, ‘A Clockwork Orange’ or ‘The Shining’?

While he evokes equally deep love and hate, one cannot argue that the New Yorker Stanley Kubrick He is one of the most influential and legendary directors in the history of cinema. Not in vain, to six of the thirteen feature films he directed for almost fifty years of his film career they are considered a sect; almost half with odd films. His obsessive precision drove the actor Jack Nicholson crazy, but without it he would not have achieved so much.

As well as his audiovisual style and the symbolic intentions of the many indelible images he has left us. However, in almost as embarrassing a case as that of another genius, the Briton Alfred Hitchcock, he received up to thirteen award nominations. Oscar and we’d say he just went home with one for special effects 2001: Space Odyssey in 1969, but did not attend the ceremony and was picked up on his behalf by actors Dihann Carroll and Burt Lancaster.

BAFTA awarded him in his category thanks to Barry Lyndon in 1976 and 2000 posthumously, and the Venice Festival, for a clockwork orange in 1972 and Eyes wide shut in 1999. But, to the astonishment of moviegoers, that was all that mattered to those who thought that “the film is, or should be, more like music than fiction (…) a succession of moods and feelings”, and “the theme behind the emotion, the meaning, everything that comes later”.

The opinion of profile critics about the work of Stanley Kubrick

The numbers indicated in the section rotten tomatoes For critics, they are as follows in terms of Stanley Kubrick’s films, ranking them from best to worst:

1. 2001: Space Odyssey (1968): GPA 9.3 out of 10 in 115 reviews.
2. Red phone? We fly to Moscow (1964): average 9.1 in 92 reviews.
3. paths of glory (1957): average 9 in 69 reviews.
4. a clockwork orange (1971): average 8.8 in 78 reviews.
5. perfect heist (1956): average 8.6 in 45 reviews.
6. glow (1980): average 8.5 in 98 reviews.
7. metal jacket (1987): average 8.3 in 83 reviews.
8. Barry Lyndon (1975): average 8.3 in 78 reviews.
9. Lolita (1962): average 7.8 in 43 reviews.
10. Eyes wide shut (1999): average 7.5 in 159 reviews.
11. killer kiss (1955): average 6.7 in 25 reviews.
12. Spartacus (1960): average 6.2 in 62 reviews.
13. fear and desire (1953): average 5.8 in 17 reviews.

Moviegoers Opinion Rotten Tomatoes

We return to rotten tomatoesbut this time for the first time ranging Movies by Stanley Kubrick according to users:

1. Red phone? We fly to Moscow: average score 4.5 out of 5 with over 100,000 votes.
2. paths of glory: average score 4.4 with over 25,000 votes.
3. metal jacket: half 4.4 with over 250,000 votes.
4. a clockwork orange: half 4.4 with over 250,000 votes.
5. glow: half 4.4 with over 250,000 votes.
6. Barry Lyndon: half 4.4 with over 25,000 votes.
7. 2001: Space Odyssey: half 4.4 with over 250,000 votes.
8. perfect heist: half 4.1 with over 50,000 votes.
9. Spartacus: half 4.1 with over 50,000 votes.
10. Lolita: half four with over 25,000 votes.
11. Eyes wide shut: half 3.8 with over 100,000 votes.
12. killer kiss: half 3.4 with over 5000 votes.
13. fear and desire: half 3 with over 1000 votes.

Opinion of moviegoers IMDb

On the other hand, it is data that you also provide to us. IMDb to public opinion:

1. glow: average score 8.4 out of 10 with 991,768 votes.
2. Red phone? We fly to Moscow: half 8.4 with 482,661 votes.
3. paths of glory: half 8.4 with 194,322 votes.
4. metal jacket: half 8.3 with 728,253 votes.
5. a clockwork orange: half 8.3 with 814,012 votes.
6. 2002: Space Odyssey: half 8.3 with 655,191 votes.
7. Barry Lyndon: half 8.1 with 165,014 votes.
8. perfect heist: half eight with 88,948 votes.
9. Spartacus: half 7.9 with 133,787 votes.
10. Eyes wide shut: half 7.5 with 332,941 votes.
11. Lolita: half 7.5 with 100,287 votes.
12. killer kiss: half 6.6 with 23,720 votes.
13. fear and desire: half 5.4 with 11,735 votes.

FilmAffinity, the opinion of moviegoers

And finally, here we have the information that he offers us. FilmAffinity about Stanley Kubrick:

1. paths of glory: average score 8.4 out of 10 with 55,247 votes.
2. a clockwork orange: half 8.2 with 167,070 votes.
3. metal jacket: half 8.2 with 121,420 votes.
4. glow: half 8.2 with 146,570 votes.
5. Spartacus: half eight with 68,355 votes.
6. Barry Lyndon: half 7.9 with 35,001 votes.
7. perfect heist: half 7.9 with 419 votes.
8. Red phone? We fly to Moscow: half 7.9 with 47,755 votes.
9. 2001: Space Odyssey: half 7.8 with 114,024 votes.
10. Lolita: half 7.5 with 23,983 votes.
11. Eyes wide shut: half 6.8 with 62,830 votes.
12. killer kiss: half 6.4 with 5342 votes.
13. fear and desire: half 5.5 with 1967 votes.

Conclusions on the best and worst about Stanley Kubrick

Nothing is further from unanimity than the Manhattan-born director. Specialized Criticism Points to Fascinating Science Fiction 2001: Space Odyssey as his best movie. Viewers of Rotten Tomatoes for a wacky comedy Red phone? We fly to Moscow; those from IMDb, to hypnotizing horror glow; and FilmAffinity, to anti-war alarm paths of glory.

However, since least commendable there is no dissent, and is chosen by both professional analysts and those who vote on the three platforms fear and desire to leave it at the bottom of the relevant ratings. This means that Stanley Kubrick improved as he accumulated time and experience behind the cameras, on a journey opposite to that of Sidney Lumet, for example, whose most impressive film twelve ruthless men (1957), his debut film.

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