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The Nice Guys

2016 · directed by Shane Black · 116 min
23,058 feet · Prominence
1,234th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘The Nice Guys’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Rob Mahoney

How this film scores

Draw54

$71m worldwide in 2016 — $98m in today's money.

As released$71mIn 2026 money$98mRank2,742 of 8,589In 201684 of 252

How Draw works

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

Praise81

Critics 81, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 81.

Critics81 → 40Awards0 → 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.

Legacy38

Judged directly: Sharp buddy noir with growing cult.

Verdict38 of 100IMDb7.4 from 410kWikipedia59k views a monthAge10 years

Scored beside it · 1,371 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 54 praise 81 legacy 38averages 58, which places it at23,058 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

Russell Crowe22,461 ftRyan Gosling22,046 ftRobert Downey Jr21,580 ft