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The Long Goodbye

1973
23,446 feet · Prominence
1,038th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw36

$1m worldwide in 1973 — $7m in today's money.

As released$1mIn 2026 money$7mRank6,230 of 8,589In 197337 of 43

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 90, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 90.

Critics90 → 45Awards0 → 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. 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.

Legacy50

Judged directly: Altman's revisionist Marlowe, strong critical canon.

Verdict50 of 100IMDb7.5 from 43kWikipedia22k views a monthAge53 years

On the listsNational Film Registryevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 831 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 36 praise 90 legacy 50averages 59, which places it at23,446 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

Arnold Schwarzenegger21,580 ft