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Ready Player One

2018 · directed by Steven Spielberg · 140 min
23,860 feet · Prominence
945th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw76

Lifetime worldwide gross $607m, re-releases included; about $798m in 2026 money.

Rank296 of 11,051In 201812 of 303

How Draw works

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

Praise69

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics68 baseAwards7 signal → +1 lift

Oscars1 nominated Visual Effects
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.

Legacy50

Judged directly: 83rd pct; nostalgia-reference film, few of its own.

Verdict50 of 100IMDb7.4 from 541kWikipedia70k views a monthAge8 years

Scored beside it · 1,055 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 76 praise 69 legacy 50averages 65, placing it at23,860 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

▲ Tye Sheridan▲ Lena Waithe

In these careers — elevation for this film

Tye Sheridan19,067 ftOlivia Cooke18,852 ftBen Mendelsohn18,633 ftMark Rylance18,560 ftT.J. Miller18,146 ftSimon Pegg18,009 ftLena Waithe17,903 ftLetitia Wright17,660 ftMckenna Grace17,657 ftRalph Ineson17,646 ftViolet McGraw17,646 ftKit Connor17,638 ftHannah John-Kamen17,633 ft