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Elf

2003 · directed by Jon Favreau · 97 min
25,448 feet · Prominence
361st of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw68

$229m worldwide in 2003 — $410m in today's money.

As released$229mIn 2026 money$410mRank786 of 8,589In 200317 of 176

How Draw works

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

Praise76

Critics 76, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 76.

Critics76 → 38Awards0 → 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.

Legacy68

Judged directly: Annual Christmas institution, endlessly quoted.

Verdict68 of 100IMDb7.1 from 345kWikipedia60k views a monthAge23 years

Scored beside it · 330 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 68 praise 76 legacy 68averages 71, which places it at25,448 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.

Whose apex this is

Will Ferrell

In these careers — elevation for this film

Will Ferrell22,425 ft