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Limitless

2011 · directed by Neil Burger · 106 min
22,580 feet · Prominence
1,479th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Limitless’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Shea Serrano

How this film scores

Draw62

$162m worldwide in 2011 — $238m in today's money.

As released$162mIn 2026 money$238mRank1,413 of 8,589In 201143 of 242

How Draw works

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

Praise64

Critics 64, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 64.

Critics64 → 32Awards0 → 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.

Legacy38

Judged directly: Limitless pill entered common speech.

Verdict38 of 100IMDb7.4 from 643kWikipedia47k views a monthAge15 years

Scored beside it · 1,395 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 62 praise 64 legacy 38averages 55, which places it at22,580 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

Bradley Cooper22,504 ftRobert De Niro22,007 ft