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Eyes Wide Shut

Eyes Wide Shut

1999
Romance, Drama
2h 39m
A doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.
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Eyes Wide Shut

1999
Romance, Drama
2h 39m
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Rated 31 Oct 2008
99
34th
I LOVE THIS FILM FROM MY CHILDHOOD BECAUSE OF SEXUAL PLEASURE ACTIVITY.
Rated 13 Sep 2020
80
77th
Stanley Kubrick going “I know sexy” with crumbs all over his beard.
Rated 02 Jan 2008
6
98th
In which sex has been so thoroughly depersonalized and commodified that the characters can only reckon with it as a transaction, as consumers, instead of an expression of real, raw desire. When Bill is confronted with explicit evidence of this unspoken reality, it horrifies him, but he's every bit as complicit in this new social dynamic as the masked figures he fears. Kubrick's best film.
Rated 28 Nov 2008
20
1st
Epitome of post-modern pretention, the film goes nowhere SLOOOW. I did love watching Cruise&Kidman talk about what a learning experience making the film was after the fact, in order to justify being taken off the market for 2+ years by this lethally dull forary into "porn". The critical acclaim heaped on this only illustrates what a bunch of kiss-ass sycophants many critics are when one of their beloved "masters" is at the helm. Take Kubrick's name off & they would yawn like the rest of us.
Rated 10 Oct 2013
100
98th
Kubrick's best and great performances by all concerned. A perfect film in that nothing has been left to chance; everything is more than it seems and intentional. A vivid, dreamy dissection of sex, money, social relations, and power in modern Babylon. Structural sociology and Lacan. The laws of hierarchy built upon the death and commodification of women and queers. Cruise's fragile masculinity breaking down until he achieves recognition. Where does it leave marriage? Harder to tell.
Rated 22 Jan 2020
8
93rd
Just rewatched for the first time in 20 years. I either didn’t get it as a kid or was just in the right mood now because I just melted into the mood of it all. The psychosexual drama may be the film’s brains but its guts are found in its secret societies, mystery and subtle but haunting terror. For a movie I hadn’t seen since 2000 so many scenes were immediately familiar, which says something. I love how the film doesn’t explain everything, let your darkest imagination fill in details.
Rated 09 Feb 2007
5
93rd
About the imprint of sex on the ego rather than the loins. People are compelled by social and biological constructs toward companionship, but still it's impossible for one to fathom the depths of another's heart. Subconscious motifs are codified in the film's illusory, hypnotic, slightly uncanny fashions and gestures. The casting of superstar couple Cruise and Kidman is a significant metatext, and being Kubrick's final film has inspired a unique level of scrutiny. This movie is extraordinary.
Rated 20 Oct 2008
85
94th
Weird and strange movie. Good performances of Cruise and Kidman. Special sex-scene in the middle of the movie, I must confess. Very good movie but I expected more suspense at the end of the film. A movie that I'll never forget.
Rated 11 May 2009
9
90th
(2nd viewing) 6 or 7 years since I've last seen it, and this is indeed an underappreciated film from Kubrick. This film about obsession and commitment works on so many levels, it plays with ones mind and the cinematography may be his best after 'Barry Lyndon'. Add some mesmerizing music and comic reliefs and you've got something for the books. Kidman wasn't nearly as good as Cruise, who was very likeable in this film. In the words of Jack Nicholson: Stan's the Man.
Rated 29 Aug 2014
65
48th
If marriage was easy I never would've watched Couples Retreat.
Rated 24 Apr 2007
91
90th
Wow, a Tom Cruise film I can actually appreciate, but we got Kubrick to thank for that. Eyes Wide Shut is a extremely surreal look into the marriage of a rich, sophisticated family, and the sexual desires of both, but more focused on Cruise. This is a very different side of Kubrick. He did explore the theme of sexual obsession before in Lolita, but this film is quite different and unique. It is really lifelike, and has a memorable score to back things up. Great ending to a great career.
Rated 13 Jun 2007
90
86th
In all likelihood, the least erotic "erotic thriller" ever made. Kubrick has made a highly intellectual film with a lot of skin... all about people's attitudes about sex, and the bombs that sex drops on people's brains. Fascinating movie that's terribly underappreciated
Rated 11 Mar 2010
96
98th
A carnal fever dream; a journey into a dark and erotic underworld. Cruise at the sex cult mansion in a cloak and mask: surreal and intoxicating. A cinematic poem about desire, trust, and sensual anxiety. Gorgeously filmed, with so many vibrant blues and golden hues.
Rated 01 Jun 2010
74
90th
Unforgettable scenes. As in: BURNED INTO MY PSYCHE. If I have any qualms about Eyes Wide Shut, it's the lack of what Barenboim would describe in music as, "The silence is louder than the sound," where a film finishes and the art experience is amplified at the credits--like an orgasmic pulse, or the rush of hypnopompia--as you re-enter reality from disassociation. La petite mort.
Rated 11 Feb 2015
98
99th
Stanley Kubrick's misunderstood masterpiece. Everything about this is so deep, it's just such a densely thematic character study. It's probably the least erotic/thrilling movie about sex ever made, but it's so masterfully and purposefully done. I can't say enough good about this movie, it's so unfairly maligned. My absolute favorite Kubrick film, I think history will eventually start to look on this as his crowning achievement.
Rated 21 Feb 2016
82
74th
A pinky-up peep show that plays like a response to Blue Velvet and incorporates more deliberate hand-acting than Dune. Honest, the amount of exaggerated body language and gesticulation in this movie verges on comedy. By the end you'll want to reach into the screen, grab Sydney Pollack's wrists and just tell him to chill out with those pool balls but you can't, for you are only a sideline voyeur.
Rated 08 Dec 2006
95
98th
kubrick's last masterpiece.
Rated 26 May 2007
1
0th
Waste. The soundtrack was one note. Literally.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
20
1st
I understood it, I just didn't think the 'profoundness' of the ideas within are enough for a whole film! Not this one anyway!
Rated 21 Jun 2008
60
9th
If this is all Stanley Kubrick figured aout about love, sex,and desire inhis log years, god save him. Pablum. Boring.
Rated 25 Jul 2010
80
81st
A slow burn, hypnotising and subtly unsettling. It's funny how, at a younger age, the mansion scenes have such a different impact. "Whoa, dude, boobies! Everywhere!!" instead of "Whoa, dude, what a fascinating nightmarish scenario". A wonderful if low-key mix of sex, death, jealousy and paranoia, and a visual treat to boot. A shame Cruise seems a bit wooden and Kidman was pretty uneven.
Rated 03 Jun 2018
60
54th
for all of Kubrick's talent, this is really little different than Joe Ezterhas's schlock of the early 90's. Tom Cruise stumbles upon a secret cabal of masked individuals who have vanilla sex with identical supermodels. it's a puritanical story about a man who learns to love sex with his married wife. and the London studio replica New York looks off; artificial, fake and lacking the sleazy grime that would mesh so well with the themes of seduction. so much for Kubrick's attention to detail.
Rated 30 Oct 2020
95
97th
I feel like if I actively went to therapy, I'd cry about this film for an entire session
Rated 18 Sep 2021
70
38th
Like other Y2K-era films, this explores a hero gaslighted about his reality. However, unlike 2001 or The Shining's treatment of that theme, Kubrick missteps here. The jealousy plot doesn't fit the character's ages. And the underworld parts mistake slow with suspense. It's so oddly constructed I've wondered if Kubrick's untimely death impacted the final production. Still, it has a dreamy soft light look & performances that benefit from the exhaustive takes. Recommended for the director's fans.
Rated 27 Jan 2007
85
82nd
A surreal, beautiful, dark, sexual dream. Very weird, I didn't really like it untill my second or third viewing.
Rated 19 Mar 2007
57
25th
I'm a huge fan of Kubrick, but this movie is just too much for its own good. Not very good and too bizarre for me to handle.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
10
0th
Nicole Kidman is nekkid and hot. 50 points. Everything else, -140. What was Kubrick thinking?
Rated 14 Aug 2007
89
91st
Sort of an uneven film, with a bit of an uninspiring start, but the Doctor's journey throughout the mansion full of masks was amazing. Kidman comes off a bit stilted, but probably pretty apt, because she's supposed to be drunk or stoned during most of her scenes. Sydney Pollack is pretty impressive as a supporting character, and now I feel like I need to see more of his acting work.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
72
41st
IMO, it's not a masterpiece, but it is a fascinating little enigma. The viewer is left to sort out which parts are real and which parts are a dream, or somewhere in between, or if it should even be thought of in those terms. Any film that leaves so much room for interpretation is at least worth thinking about. And the cinematography is, as one expects from Kubrick, phenomenal. What brings EWS down most of all is the acting. Let's not kid ourselves, Cruise and Kidman are awful in this movie.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
77
77th
A fairly successful examination of male fantasy/desire. This is beautifully filmed. Certainly an odd film. Everything seemed to be delivered in a very controlled and deliberate manner. The settings had a touch of the otherworldy about them. Human interactions seemed almost dreamlike. The net result was a compelling, curious experience, with a subtle undercurrent of dread and unease. Watching it made me feel like I'd been up all night for some reason...
Rated 12 Sep 2007
49
40th
A too-old Stanley Kubrick put out this ponderous, dark, unbelievable and bizarre movie. Maybe stuff like that really does go on....nah. I don't think so. Nicole Kidder in glasses and panties is the high point of the movie.
Rated 08 Nov 2007
90
93rd
Kubrick pissed off millions with this movie. One of his best, more intense dramas he made.
Rated 04 Feb 2008
90
88th
Kubrick's best. I said it. I just went there.
Rated 16 Apr 2008
50
8th
I don't like this film, cause it is too pretentious and it was called thriller, but it is boring.
Rated 16 Feb 2009
90
61st
i prefer Lynch when talking about morbid dreams but Kubrick is Kubrick.
Rated 13 Jul 2009
0
3rd
Ugh!
Rated 07 Nov 2009
94
95th
A complex moral tale about the allure of lust, the mistrust that rises to the surface when we mask our true selves, and the many ways that sex works its way into our psyches in the modern world. Kubrick's cinematography never fails to dazzle making use of diffuse, dreamlike lighting and a camera that's constantly in motion around the characters. Excellent film all around.
Rated 12 Apr 2010
85
92nd
EWS is probably Kubrick's strangest film and it's difficult to sum up what it's exactly about. It's a statement about the lurking taboo sexuality hidden beneath society's surface, marital infidelity, and corruption of wealth. It's surreal and beautiful to look at but a bit melodramatic at times overall it's still an interesting Kubrick film. It's also amusing to see Tom Cruise get blue-balled every 30 minutes when he tries to cheat.
Rated 07 Feb 2011
60
42nd
I was participating in orgies more shocking while still in grade school.
Rated 01 May 2011
60
69th
Talk about underwhelming... A few parts were great and intense, while others were really boring. The ending was not good and the whole thing feels unfinished. But maybe this is because I expect a lot more from Kubrick than this.
Rated 27 Nov 2011
94
98th
Kubrick's final film is an engrossing, hypnotizing exploration of infidelity and sexual longing. Highly metaphorical, it demands much but if you're able to give then you'll find something wonderful. The acting (surprisingly) works, the orgy scene is nerve wracking, the music is used wonderfully, and the cinematography is amazing: pastel tans and browns contrasted with neon reds and blues. One final masterpiece from a legendary filmmaker.
Rated 17 Jun 2013
32
3rd
I remember really, really wanting to leave the theater during this movie. I am not quite sure why I stayed.
Rated 28 Dec 2014
85
64th
Stanley Kubrick films are very much like onions. They're appealing to look at on the surface and have many layers. For example, in this film, Tom Cruise's character has a number of unique facades that he shows people depending on the situation - he's a doctor to his patients, a father to his daughter, a husband to his wife, a douchebag to people trying to have a party, etc. Maybe a matryoshka doll would be a better comparison, but those don't make me cry like onions and Kubrick films do.
Rated 06 Feb 2017
71
55th
Its Kubrick, its hyped movie with cult status by some people.. so I expected so much, even though Cruise is in it.. but I cant say it delivered. Its a nice erotic familly drama of sophisticated and rich couple and their attempts to bring monotony out of their marriage.. and thats it, nothing more to it.. Of course piano soundtracks and intensity of certain scenes are brilliant, those scenes are the only one that give you that awesome feeling of watching a Kubrick's movie :)
Rated 18 Dec 2018
75
64th
This is the least erotic erotic thriller ever made. I wanted more Nicole Kidman.
Rated 19 Dec 2018
90
96th
Even more so than Kubrick's other works, every frame of this makes you stop and wonder how did he manage to capture that on film. Unreal.
Rated 03 Feb 2019
68
0th
My type of movie - always recommended to me, although I wasn't such a huge fan. I was quite bored by a lot of the scenes, and some of the expressions made by a lot of the characters were very overplayed. Great plot however.
Rated 13 Feb 2019
89
68th
Characters were hardly relatable, but I liked the atmosphere.
Rated 28 Feb 2020
89
86th
The dreamy, narrow-streeted NYC is my favorite thing about this. Kidman kinda sucked
Rated 10 Mar 2021
85
74th
Suspicions of elite oppression, a wicked take at the dangers of male/female fantasy and marital restraint, perhaps an even deeper look at desires that are manifested in fantasy versus the physical existence that doesn't quite satisfy it's fancy....A truly Kubrick committed style that doesn't disappoint from beginning to end.
Rated 12 Dec 2006
80
55th
Tom Cruise is alright in this, even though he sucks at life. Love all the boobs.
Rated 01 Feb 2007
87
93rd
This film cannot appeal to the simpleton. If you've never reflected on your own life, or that of those around you this movie will just seem stupid. But if you've ever been lost in your own life, questioned temptation, or wondered how someone managed to fall so far so easily, it is within swinging distance of reality.
Rated 09 Feb 2007
40
12th
20 points because of seeing nicole kidman nude ... this movie is booring!
Rated 23 Feb 2007
90
95th
An excellent study of the human mind, obsession with sex and how the society reacts. Slow-paced rythm builds up a sustained suspense throughout the entire movie. The performances are on point.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
22nd
Kubrick's one misstep. Pity it was his last film.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
67
46th
A step down for Kubrick.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
40
24th
Tries WAY too hard to be mysterious and suspenseful, ends up boring and directionless. Great soundtrack, though.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
20
12th
I know it's by Kubrik and everything, but it was soooooo slow, slower than my internet connection it's so slow. And I'm over Tom Cruise. Not even the promise of Gratuitous nudity could keep my interest and as a middle aged pervert THAT'S saying something!!!
Rated 14 Aug 2007
71
27th
Kubrick's last film is a flawed but interesting look at one hell of a relationship.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
1
0th
Boring...
Rated 14 Aug 2007
69
33rd
score mirrors the film
Rated 21 Aug 2007
63
15th
I have no idea what happened here.
Rated 16 Sep 2007
45
4th
It is not my movie. I watched it two times, but I still don't like it.
Rated 16 Nov 2007
0
5th
what a sad mess. awful performances all around.
Rated 30 Dec 2007
85
69th
Now that all the hype about the power-couple of Kidman-Cruise is over with, it's interesting to watch without all the stupid comments made from the tabloid reading public. The beginning scenes of intoxication at the party are great (the pot scene less so) and the buildup to the secret party is very exciting. The party itself is one of the more unsettling things Kubrick has ever filmed, but after that the movie sort of loses steam. A great last line, though.
Rated 05 Feb 2008
69
37th
Ever so boring
Rated 10 Feb 2008
20
17th
sucked
Rated 18 Feb 2008
99
94th
Extremely underrated. This is Kubrick's most beautifully shot, next to of course 2001. The score is chillingly excellent. Eerie and engaging for it's entire length, with a perfect ending.
Rated 14 Mar 2008
89
89th
Brilliantly directed. Kubrick's smooth steady cam work, great eye for composition, beautiful use of colors and shapes, and pitch perfect music choices are all as good here as with any of his other films. I also have to give props to Tom Cruise. Besides Magnolia, this is the best acting of his career. So what's the movie actually about? What was real and what was a dream? What does it all mean? I really have no idea, but it's sure fun to think about.
Rated 02 Jun 2008
99
99th
Kubrick nails it. This movie can be analyzed for hours and still not fully understood.
Rated 10 Jun 2008
85
92nd
The last line of this movie, when Kidman says they should go home and fuck, seems like it lacks distance from an assertion of unalienated relating that would be in contrast to everything we have seen until then, most especially the world's least erotic fully nude orgy scene. In other words, it feels too close to an endorsement of a return to conventional nuclear coupling in lieu of further pursuing anything outside of such domesticity. Thus the polar opposite of the last line of CRASH (1996).
Rated 28 Jul 2008
61
11th
Had great potential but I hated the ending.
Rated 30 Aug 2008
87
90th
The last great movie by Stanley Kubrik. Multilayered story with complex characters that leaves you thinking about it, when the film is over. Sometimes I get strange feelings when watching it, because it's so intense, similar but not quite the same as with David Lynch's movies. Though great stuff. The piano piece is striking.
Rated 11 Sep 2008
98
98th
A great work by Stanley Kubrick, his last Movie and definitely one of the best ones in the 90's. A Film about Passion, jealousy and what it's meant to live in a partnership. I really love this movie. The "ritual" scene is absolutely beautiful and sick together.
Rated 13 Sep 2008
50
7th
Pretentious crap. And Tom Cruise? Yeah, he can't act. Well, he *can*, but he always acts out the same character in every film he's in.
Rated 18 Jan 2009
25
35th
Terrible all around. Quite a few titties though.
Rated 11 Mar 2009
100
97th
Straight up, I would eat Kidman's butt. That thing is so good that I would open mouth kiss Tom Cruise because he's probably eaten Kidman's butt.
Rated 04 Apr 2009
100
99th
Kubrick's greatest film along with "2001" (I love both so much it pains me to put one above the other). Endlessly fascinating, and completely draws you into its surreal Christmastime atmosphere. One of the best things about the film is that the various mysteries about what happens and why remain mysteries, and as a result everything really sticks in the mind for days after viewing. The infamous orgy sequence is simply one of the most haunting and compelling things ever committed to celluloid.
Rated 07 Apr 2009
91
83rd
It's better than you've heard(Or remember...). Interesting to me that people further down my TCI list appreciate it more than those at the top... I think we should all watch it again, now that our emotions have calmed down with the untimely death of Kubrick when they were filming...
Rated 12 May 2009
95
97th
I'd agree with Criminal5. Really wasn't expecting to like this quite as much as I do. Kubrick once again proved that he's really fucking bold, making a movie this sexual, this daring and releasing it to the mainstream. Beautiful cinematography, a great pace, fantastic acting, a scary/emotional main piano theme and a wonderful script make this a brilliant swansong.
Rated 22 Jul 2009
60
57th
It didn't impress me very much. I guess the movie and it's story was shocking when it came out 10 years ago, but nowadays it looks pretty boring. It's slow paced and seeing Kidman's titties every 10 minutes gets dull too.
Rated 08 Aug 2009
88
88th
Nobody is giving their best performance here and sometimes the sleepwalking/dreamlike vibe does just veer over into the bad kind of slow but when this movie is firing on all cylinders it’s so intense and spellbinding. Men are so insecure lmao
Rated 08 Aug 2009
93
99th
Gets better and more appreciated upon each subsequent viewing. A brilliantly filmed examination of human desire and the depths to which it can consume our psyches. Kubrick once again breaks new ground in its cinematography that soon influenced a generation of DPs mimicking its floaty, dreamy, surreal movement and framing. Probably Kubrick's most difficult film for casual moviegoers to get into since '2001.'
Rated 10 Sep 2009
74
16th
My least favorite Kubrick film.
Rated 13 Sep 2009
82
92nd
Very Nice Movie
Rated 18 Sep 2009
25
7th
Take out the controversy about the NC-17 rating, and this movie was a boring, pretentious pile of crap.
Rated 15 Jan 2010
62
24th
769
Rated 19 Jan 2010
85
92nd
Liked it way better than expected. It doesn't happen a lot that a slow paced film without a prominent plot can grab my attention but this time I was extremly fascinated by this beautiful and compelling film.
Rated 15 Apr 2010
10
0th
what the fuck did I just watch
Rated 22 May 2010
82
67th
Entrancing, but it doesn't quite do it for me. The mood, the music, the cinematography are all great and even the acting is mostly good. The intrigue definitely got my attention, though it did drag in a few places, and for the most part I liked it but it failed to connect with me or leave me with anything to think about once it was over.
Rated 21 Sep 2010
69
73rd
Stands toe to toe with Kubricks other films as far as being beautifully shot. Cruise and Kidman are just not up to the task. It is still an interesting piece of work.
Rated 03 Oct 2010
8
88th
Starkly confrontational, honest and shocking intimate; like looking in the mirror and seeing your aging face, the crowfeet growing below your eyes, where once there were dreams & innocence. EWS cracks institution of marriage and the bonds of fidelity to uncover the monster lurking in the shadows, namely bestial lust. Perhaps there is room for both and carnal lust can be outweighed by the momentum of time. By the end we're still unsure; eternally stuck in limbo, the vicious cycle of human desire.
Rated 18 Oct 2010
75
77th
Sets out to deconstruct married life, but ends up more like a male infidelity fantasy, and even though Cruise for the most part is brilliant in the lead, his character is simply too introvert to connect to on any higher level than "he's confused (and horny)". That said, there's no denying that Kubrick is one of the greatest visual directors ever, here creating an almost surreal nocturne thriller. I'm sure there are some deeper levels I've missed, but even on face value it's an interesting watch.
Rated 15 Jan 2011
74
79th
Kubrick's final film feels like the first 2 acts of an incomplete masterpiece. It ends too early, giving us only several glimpses into an intriguing, bizarre sexual world filled with masked orgies featuring what, I assume, are a secret cabal of the world's power brokers banging models. Though, in its teasing, incomplete structure, the whole thing feels like a commentary on sexual frustration... but damn If I didn't want Cruise's character to try and go back, even if it meant certain doom.
Rated 30 Jan 2011
100
85th
4 Shaqtaculars
Rated 06 Apr 2011
81
73rd
Kubrick test the moral fabric of commitment, fidelity, honesty and whether or not it's really worth it to marry Nicole Kidman. Kind of like "My Dinner With Andre" but without pants.
Rated 29 Apr 2011
89
82nd
Kubrick's final masterpiece, and a masterpiece it truly is. Kubrick weaves a tapestry of erotica, mystery, and dread throughout the entire film, and we leave trying to piece everything together (much like most of his great work).
Rated 31 Oct 2011
93
96th
Told in vignettes, it embraces non-structure and instead focuses on the development of mood and the idea of sexual and emotional validation. It's one of Kubrick's loosest, and therefore one of his most engaging films. It's open and warm--Kubrick's least distant film--evocative in its use of color and lighting, and the standard thriller elements play with the characters in such a provocative, almost subversive way. Unique in Kubrick's filmography but essential to it in many ways.
Rated 21 Dec 2011
85
89th
This is an underrated Stanley Kubrick film. It is not his best film but there are still a lot of great moments. This film explores some of the darker sides of relationships among other things.
Rated 18 Feb 2012
79
58th
The atmosphere carries it. If this was anybody other than Kubrick, it would have been a dire, erotic thriller instead it was a slow burning analysis of lust, betrayal, secrecy and trust.

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