Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Eyes Wide Shut
Scored from 1,122 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A married couple experiences marital tensions when the wife confesses to a fantasy about another man, prompting the husband to embark on a mysterious nocturnal journey through New York City's underworld. His odyssey leads him through a series of seductive encounters and ultimately to an exclusive masked ball at a mysterious mansion, where hidden desires and dangerous secrets intersect.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) is a film IMDb files under the drama, psychological thriller and mystery genres. It was made in the United States. The runtime is 159 minutes. It stars Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Sydney Pollack. It was directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is rated R.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 6,600 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. 1,122 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 1,182 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Eyes Wide Shut lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1990s (4,082 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 1,122.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
