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The Shining

1980 · directed by Stanley Kubrick · 144 min
26,705 feet · Prominence
129th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘The Shining’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

How this film scores

Draw60

$45m worldwide in 1980 — $179m in today's money.

As released$45mIn 2026 money$179mRank1,793 of 8,589In 198017 of 75

How Draw works

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

Praise76

Critics 76, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 76.

Critics76 → 38Awards0 → 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.

Legacy95

Judged directly: Endlessly referenced horror, iconic imagery.

Verdict95 of 100IMDb8.4 from 1.2mWikipedia149k views a monthAge46 years

On the listsNational Film RegistrySight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 7 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 60 praise 76 legacy 95averages 77, which places it at26,705 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

Jack Nicholson22,432 ft