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Mysterious Skin

2005 · directed by Gregg Araki · 105 min
22,771 feet · Prominence
1,547th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw32

Lifetime worldwide gross $2m, re-releases included; about $4m in 2026 money.

Rank8,220 of 11,051In 2005213 of 266

How Draw works

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

Praise80

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics80 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: Queer-cinema touchstone, steady attention.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb7.6 from 84kWikipedia46k views a monthAge21 years

Scored beside it · 1,232 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 32 praise 80 legacy 48averages 53, placing it at22,771 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

▲ Brady Corbet

In these careers — elevation for this film

Joseph Gordon-Levitt19,571 ftBrady Corbet18,747 ftElisabeth Shue18,123 ftBill Sage18,080 ft