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Mean Streets

1973 · directed by Martin Scorsese · 112 min
25,148 feet · Prominence
448th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw43

$3m worldwide in 1973 — $22m in today's money.

As released$3mIn 2026 money$22mRank5,027 of 8,589In 197327 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.

Praise94

Critics 94, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 94.

Critics94 → 47Awards0 → 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.

Legacy68

Judged directly: Scorsese breakthrough, canonical, De Niro debut.

Verdict68 of 100IMDb7.2 from 125kWikipedia30k views a monthAge53 years

On the listsNational Film RegistryCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 338 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 43 praise 94 legacy 68averages 68, which places it at25,148 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

Robert De Niro22,233 ft