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McCabe & Mrs. Miller

1971 · directed by Robert Altman · 120 min
23,738 feet · Prominence
1,006th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw0

No worldwide gross on file, so Draw is zero. A gap in the data, not a verdict.

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics89 baseAwards22 signal → +1 lift

Oscars1 nominated Actress
BAFTAs1 nominated Craft and other
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. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy66

Judged directly: Registry and Criterion revisionist western.

Verdict66 of 100IMDb7.6 from 29kWikipedia12k views a monthAge55 years

On the listsNational Film RegistryCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 406 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 0 praise 90 legacy 66averages 52, placing it at23,738 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

Julie Christie18,656 ftWarren Beatty18,621 ftShelley Duvall17,842 ftRené Auberjonois17,761 ftWilliam Devane17,748 ftKeith Carradine17,619 ftMichael Murphy17,614 ft