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Chef

2014 · directed by Jon Favreau · 114 min
22,162 feet · Prominence
1,639th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Chef’ With Bill Simmons and Dave Chang

How this film scores

Draw51

$50m worldwide in 2014 — $70m in today's money.

As released$50mIn 2026 money$70mRank3,225 of 8,589In 201488 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.

Praise78

Critics 78, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 78.

Critics78 → 39Awards0 → 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: Food-movie comfort staple.

Verdict30 of 100IMDb7.3 from 249kWikipedia30k views a monthAge12 years

Scored beside it · 1,894 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 51 praise 78 legacy 30averages 53, which places it at22,162 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

Scarlett Johansson21,660 ftDustin Hoffman21,618 ftRobert Downey Jr21,578 ft