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Three Kings

1999 · directed by David O. Russell · 114 min
24,065 feet · Prominence
781st of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw61

$108m worldwide in 1999 — $214m in today's money.

As released$108mIn 2026 money$214mRank1,556 of 8,589In 199935 of 170

How Draw works

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

Praise88

Critics 88, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 88.

Critics88 → 44Awards0 → 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. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so the awards half halves it — which penalises it for the Academy's rules rather than its quality.

Legacy42

Judged directly: Admired Gulf War satire.

Verdict42 of 100IMDb7.1 from 185kWikipedia20k views a monthAge27 years

Scored beside it · 1,117 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 61 praise 88 legacy 42averages 64, which places it at24,065 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

George Clooney22,389 ft