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Dressed to Kill

1980 · directed by Brian De Palma · 105 min
23,816 feet · Prominence
878th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw57

$32m worldwide in 1980 — $128m in today's money.

As released$32mIn 2026 money$128mRank2,292 of 8,589In 198022 of 75

How Draw works

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

Praise79

Critics 79, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 79.

Critics79 → 40Awards0 → 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.

Legacy48

Judged directly: Criterion, De Palma landmark, much analyzed.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb7 from 55kWikipedia18k views a monthAge46 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 890 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 57 praise 79 legacy 48averages 61, which places it at23,816 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

Michael Caine21,868 ft