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Mo' Better Blues

1990 · directed by Spike Lee · 129 min
22,668 feet · Prominence
1,713rd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw47

Lifetime worldwide gross $16m, re-releases included; about $41m in 2026 money.

Rank4,656 of 11,051In 199067 of 147

How Draw works

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

Praise66

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics66 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.

Legacy49

Not judged yet, so Legacy falls back to footprint: how many still rate it, how highly, and for how long.

IMDb6.7 from 15kWikipedia10k views a monthAge36 years

How Legacy works

Canon list membership, reach (Wikipedia traffic above IMDb votes) and time served. Every signal behind it keeps updating, which is what separates Legacy from Praise.

draw 47 praise 66 legacy 49averages 54, placing it at22,668 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 Washington19,855 ftSpike Lee19,033 ftWesley Snipes18,749 ftJohn Turturro18,113 ftGiancarlo Esposito18,068 ftBill Nunn17,892 ftTracy Camilla Johns17,818 ftJohn Canada Terrell17,762 ftSamuel L. Jackson17,654 ftDoug E. Doug17,629 ft