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Out of Sight

1998 · directed by Steven Soderbergh · 123 min
24,010 feet · Prominence
802nd of 15,261 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw58

$78m worldwide in 1998 — $157m in today's money.

As released$78mIn 2026 money$157mRank1,979 of 8,589In 199843 of 165

How Draw works

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

Praise90

Critics 89, awards 16. Half each, so Praise lands at 90.

Critics89 → 44Awards16 → 8

Oscars2 nominated Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing
How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so the awards half halves it — which penalises it for the Academy's rules rather than its quality.

Legacy42

Judged directly: Soderbergh cool, trunk scene admired.

Verdict42 of 100IMDb7 from 104kWikipedia21k views a monthAge28 years

Scored beside it · 1,118 of 3,430 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 58 praise 90 legacy 42averages 63, which places it at24,010 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.

In these careers — elevation for this film

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