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Chungking Express

1994 · directed by Wong Kar-Wai · 103 min · PG-13
24,065 feet · Prominence
846th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw30

Lifetime worldwide gross $1m, re-releases included; about $2m in 2026 money.

Rank8,688 of 11,051In 1994157 of 178

How Draw works

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

Praise84

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics84 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.

Legacy62

Judged directly: Wong Kar-wai canon, enormous aesthetic influence.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb7.9 from 109kWikipedia42k views a monthAge32 years

On the listsCriterion CollectionSight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 524 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 30 praise 84 legacy 62averages 59, placing it at24,065 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

▲ Brigitte Lin▲ Faye Wong

In these careers — elevation for this film

Tony Leung Chiu-wai19,084 ftFaye Wong18,487 ftBrigitte Lin18,386 ftTakeshi Kaneshiro18,368 ft