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Le Cercle Rouge

1970 · directed by Jean-Pierre Melville · 140 min
24,089 feet · Prominence
836th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw0

No worldwide gross on file, so Draw is zero. A gap in the data, not a verdict.

How Draw works

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

Praise94

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics94 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.

Legacy68

Judged directly: Melville heist canon, hugely influential.

Verdict68 of 100IMDb7.9 from 31kWikipedia4k views a monthAge56 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 378 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 0 praise 94 legacy 68averages 54, placing it at24,089 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

▲ Bourvil

In these careers — elevation for this film

Alain Delon18,387 ftYves Montand18,243 ftGian Maria Volonté18,143 ftBourvil18,045 ftFrançois Périer17,611 ft