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Taste of Cherry

1997 · directed by Abbas Kiarostami · 99 min
23,909 feet · Prominence
916th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw14

Lifetime worldwide gross $0m, re-releases included; about $0m in 2026 money.

Rank10,798 of 11,051In 1997210 of 213

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics81 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.

Legacy68

Judged directly: Palme winner, Criterion and Sight & Sound.

Verdict68 of 100IMDb7.7 from 41kWikipedia10k views a monthAge29 years

On the listsCriterion CollectionSight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 379 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 14 praise 81 legacy 68averages 54, placing it at23,909 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

▲ Homayoun Ershadi▲ Abdolrahman Bagheri▲ Mir Hossein Noori▲ Safar Ali Moradi

In these careers — elevation for this film

Homayoun Ershadi18,470 ftAbdolrahman Bagheri18,019 ftMir Hossein Noori17,803 ftSafar Ali Moradi17,780 ft