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The Wind That Shakes the Barley

2006 · directed by Ken Loach · 127 min
22,876 feet · Prominence
1,478th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw46

Lifetime worldwide gross $23m, re-releases included; about $37m in 2026 money.

Rank4,828 of 11,051In 2006138 of 303

How Draw works

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

Praise86

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics86 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. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy40

Judged directly: Palme winner, little ongoing presence.

Verdict40 of 100IMDb7.5 from 58kWikipedia22k views a monthAge20 years

Scored beside it · 1,767 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 46 praise 86 legacy 40averages 57, placing it at22,876 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

▲ Cillian Murphy

In these careers — elevation for this film

Cillian Murphy19,820 ftLiam Cunningham18,349 ftRoger Allam17,630 ft