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Kes

1970 · directed by Ken Loach · 111 min
23,893 feet · Prominence
925th 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.

Praise100

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics100 baseAwards38 signal → +0 lift

BAFTAs1 won Actor3 nominated Best Picture, Directing, Screenplay
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: British canon staple, taught widely.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb7.9 from 25kWikipedia20k views a monthAge56 years

On the listsCriterion CollectionSight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 528 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 100 legacy 62averages 54, placing it at23,893 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

▲ David Bradley▲ Freddie Fletcher▲ Lynne Perrie

In these careers — elevation for this film

David Bradley18,130 ftColin Welland17,797 ftFreddie Fletcher17,752 ftLynne Perrie17,716 ft