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The Equalizer

2014 · directed by Antoine Fuqua · 132 min
21,856 feet · Prominence
1,758th of 15,261 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw64

$192m worldwide in 2014 — $268m in today's money.

As released$192mIn 2026 money$268mRank1,247 of 8,589In 201443 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.

Praise59

Critics 59, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 59.

Critics59 → 30Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

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.

Legacy30

Judged directly: Denzel action franchise, thin imprint.

Verdict30 of 100IMDb7.3 from 465kWikipedia76k views a monthAge12 years

Scored beside it · 1,904 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 64 praise 59 legacy 30averages 51, which places it at21,856 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

Denzel Washington22,530 ft