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25th Hour

2002 · directed by Spike Lee · 135 min
22,753 feet · Prominence
1,565th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw48

Lifetime worldwide gross $24m, re-releases included; about $44m in 2026 money.

Rank4,511 of 11,051In 2002117 of 253

How Draw works

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

Praise74

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics74 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.

Legacy45

Judged directly: Defining post-9/11 New York film.

Verdict45 of 100IMDb7.6 from 188kWikipedia22k views a monthAge24 years

Scored beside it · 1,442 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 48 praise 74 legacy 45averages 56, placing it at22,753 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

Edward Norton19,870 ftPhilip Seymour Hoffman18,819 ftBarry Pepper18,657 ftRosario Dawson18,477 ftBrian Cox18,415 ftSpike Lee18,194 ftAnna Paquin18,088 ft