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Panic Room

2002 · directed by David Fincher · 111 min
22,621 feet · Prominence
1,783rd of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw67

Lifetime worldwide gross $197m, re-releases included; about $362m in 2026 money.

Rank922 of 11,051In 200222 of 253

How Draw works

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

Praise71

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics71 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.

Legacy38

Judged directly: Fincher craft, culturally quiet.

Verdict38 of 100IMDb6.8 from 313kWikipedia0k views a monthAge24 years

Scored beside it · 1,907 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 67 praise 71 legacy 38averages 59, placing it at22,621 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

Jodie Foster20,124 ftForest Whitaker19,102 ftKristen Stewart18,648 ftJared Leto18,619 ftDwight Yoakam18,177 ftPatrick Bauchau17,819 ftNicole Kidman17,655 ft