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Inside Man

2006 · directed by Spike Lee · 129 min
23,783 feet · Prominence
896th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Inside Man’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

How this film scores

Draw65

$186m worldwide in 2006 — $304m in today's money.

As released$186mIn 2026 money$304mRank1,093 of 8,589In 200621 of 215

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 → 41Awards0 → 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.

Legacy40

Judged directly: Sharp Spike Lee thriller, quietly faded.

Verdict40 of 100IMDb7.6 from 423kWikipedia0k views a monthAge20 years

Scored beside it · 1,239 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 65 praise 81 legacy 40averages 62, which places it at23,783 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

Denzel Washington22,615 ftJodie Foster21,857 ftWillem Dafoe21,651 ft