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Super Fly

1972 · directed by Gordon Parks Jr. · 91 min
24,602 feet · Prominence
623rd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw62

Lifetime worldwide gross $30m, re-releases included; about $237m in 2026 money.

Rank1,472 of 11,051In 197213 of 38

How Draw works

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

Praise80

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics80 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy58

Judged directly: Registry blaxploitation landmark, Mayfield soundtrack immortal.

Verdict58 of 100IMDb6.4 from 9kWikipedia7k views a monthAge54 years

On the listsNational Film Registryevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 660 of 4,039 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 62 praise 80 legacy 58averages 67, placing it at24,602 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.

Whose apex this is

▲ Ron O'Neal▲ Sheila Frazier▲ Carl Lee

In these careers — elevation for this film

Ron O'Neal19,033 ftCarl Lee18,090 ftSheila Frazier17,956 ftCharles McGregor17,917 ft