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Naked Lunch

1991 · directed by David Cronenberg · 115 min
22,701 feet · Prominence
1,661st of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw35

Lifetime worldwide gross $3m, re-releases included; about $6m in 2026 money.

Rank7,575 of 11,051In 1991124 of 176

How Draw works

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

Praise70

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics70 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.

Legacy52

Judged directly: Criterion; notorious unfilmable adaptation.

Verdict52 of 100IMDb6.9 from 61kWikipedia18k views a monthAge35 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 991 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 35 praise 70 legacy 52averages 52, placing it at22,701 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

▲ Peter Weller

In these careers — elevation for this film

Peter Weller19,639 ftJudy Davis18,642 ftRoy Scheider18,223 ftIan Holm18,169 ftJulian Sands18,025 ft