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New Jack City

1991 · directed by Mario Van Peebles · 101 min · R
23,136 feet · Prominence
1,324th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw56

Lifetime worldwide gross $48m, re-releases included; about $115m in 2026 money.

Rank2,662 of 11,051In 199129 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.

Praise71

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics71 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy48

Judged directly: Nino Brown, hip-hop-era landmark, quoted.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb6.6 from 41kWikipedia23k views a monthAge35 years

Scored beside it · 1,214 of 4,039 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 56 praise 71 legacy 48averages 58, placing it at23,136 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

Wesley Snipes20,043 ftMario Van Peebles18,900 ftIce-T18,888 ftChris Rock18,737 ftAllen Payne18,331 ftBill Nunn18,022 ftTracy Camilla Johns17,836 ftJudd Nelson17,653 ftBill Cobbs17,630 ft