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Eyes Wide Shut

1999 · directed by Stanley Kubrick · 159 min
25,055 feet · Prominence
478th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Eyes Wide Shut’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin

How this film scores

Draw66

$162m worldwide in 1999 — $321m in today's money.

As released$162mIn 2026 money$321mRank1,035 of 8,589In 199925 of 170

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise73

Critics 73, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 73.

Critics73 → 37Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy65

Judged directly: Criterion Kubrick; the masked orgy permanently referenced.

Verdict65 of 100IMDb7.5 from 424kWikipedia233k views a monthAge27 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 373 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 66 praise 73 legacy 65averages 68, which places it at25,055 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Tom Cruise22,751 ftNicole Kidman22,084 ftCate Blanchett21,588 ft