SummaryA doctor (Tom Cruise) becomes obsessed with having a sexual experience after his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), confesses to having fantasies about a random servicemen she briefly encountered over a year ago.
Directed By:Stanley Kubrick
Written By:Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael, Arthur Schnitzler
Eyes Wide Shut
Metascore
Generally Favorable
69
User score
Generally Favorable
8.0
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
69
74% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
15% Mixed
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12% Negative
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100
A spellbinder: provocatively conceived, gorgeously shot and masterfully executed.
90
A riveting, thematically probing, richly atmospheric and just occasionally troublesome work, a deeply inquisitive consideration of the extent of trust and mutual knowledge possible between a man and a woman.
User score
Generally Favorable
8.0
85% Positive
383 Ratings
383 Ratings
10% Mixed
45 Ratings
45 Ratings
5% Negative
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
Sep 29, 2025
10
Movie wonderful. I don't usually write, but i couldn't help but do so for this. So many incredible details: the nudity in the film, Nicole Kidman's nudity, other beautiful and voluptuous bodies; what photography, what colors, what lights, what setting; what a story; how provocative Stanley Kubrick is. This movie stirs our imagination, deep down... Our fantasies come to the surface... This movie marked my childhood; it scared me and gave me that inner heat of a young teenager. Today, it still scares me, for other reasons, of course. And the youthful warmth has been replaced by admiration for the female body, by respect and reverence for sex, but also, equally, by marriage and a loving relationship between two, and only two, people. Wow! What soundtrack is that?! My god!
80
It is the very preposterousness of Eyes Wide Shut which is the key to the achievement it represents: it has a singular excessiveness - at once gamey, florid and enigmatically deadpan - which underpins this picture's rich, sensuous style.
78
These scenes of debauchery and lust that make up the film's centerpiece are among some of the most powerful and disturbing ever put to film.
70
It's a mind-blowing game, and all that nonsense about this being an erotic thriller was merely part of Kubrick's game.
50
The director's famously over-deliberate, pause-laden style verges, for the first time, on amateurville, and that gives us too much time to linger on the movie's more bizarre details.
20
It's empty of ideas, which is fine, but it's also empty of heat.
Mar 24, 2014
6
Perhaps I need to watch this again. Roger Ebert said it best; "the reconciliation at the end of the film is the one scene that does not work." And he was right, it felt like they had to tie up any loose ends and they had to do it fast as this film was approaching two and half hours. This needs to be watched with some effort as it will be difficult to understand for many. However, the movie is very well done but has its faults. It is an average film with score of 57.1 out of 100.
Feb 9, 2026
5
There are so many things that don't make sense about this film and the dialog between characters is underwhelming at times. One too many things about the plot make it too unrealistic and hard connect with. As a Stanley Kubrick fan, this one disappointed.
Jan 21, 2025
2
Bu yapım tam bir vakit kaybı. Bir şeyler beklemiştim ama bu kadar da elim boş dönmezdim....
Feb 25, 2022
0
одним словом - порнуха в ролевой секции, какое-то абсолютно странное кино и очень не похожее на стиль стэнли кубрика
Production Company:
- Warner Bros.
- Stanley Kubrick Productions
- Hobby Films
- Pole Star
Release Date:Jul 16, 1999
Duration:2 h 39 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Cruise. Kidman. Kubrick.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Win & 8 Nominations
Online Film Critics Society Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
