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A Time to Kill

1996 · directed by Joel Schumacher · 149 min
22,364 feet · Prominence
1,564th of 15,261 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw66

$152m worldwide in 1996 — $320m in today's money.

As released$152mIn 2026 money$320mRank1,040 of 8,589In 199616 of 170

How Draw works

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

Praise60

Critics 60, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 60.

Critics60 → 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.

Legacy35

Judged directly: Grisham hit, McConaughey breakout.

Verdict35 of 100IMDb7.5 from 192kWikipedia79k views a monthAge30 years

Scored beside it · 1,533 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 66 praise 60 legacy 35averages 54, which places it at22,364 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

Matthew McConaughey22,487 ftSandra Bullock22,203 ftSamuel L. Jackson21,795 ft