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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1990 · directed by Steve Barron · 93 min · PG
23,093 feet · Prominence
1,354th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw71

Lifetime worldwide gross $202m, re-releases included; about $510m in 2026 money.

Rank591 of 11,051In 19909 of 147

How Draw works

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

Praise49

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics49 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.

Legacy55

Judged directly: Generational touchstone, launched Turtles cinema.

Verdict55 of 100IMDb6.8 from 112kWikipedia32k views a monthAge36 years

Scored beside it · 862 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 71 praise 49 legacy 55averages 58, placing it at23,093 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

▲ Elias Koteas

In these careers — elevation for this film

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