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Creed

2015 · directed by Ryan Coogler · 133 min
24,610 feet · Prominence
595th of 15,261 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw63

$174m worldwide in 2015 — $242m in today's money.

As released$174mIn 2026 money$242mRank1,384 of 8,589In 201536 of 227

How Draw works

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

Praise89

Critics 89, awards 13. Half each, so Praise lands at 89.

Critics89 → 44Awards13 → 6

Oscars1 nominated Supporting Actor
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. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so the awards half halves it — which penalises it for the Academy's rules rather than its quality.

Legacy48

Judged directly: Revived Rocky, launched Coogler and Jordan.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb7.6 from 330kWikipedia65k views a monthAge11 years

Scored beside it · 859 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 63 praise 89 legacy 48averages 67, which places it at24,610 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

Sylvester Stallone22,511 ftMichael B. Jordan22,441 ft