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Before Sunrise

1995 · directed by Richard Linklater · 101 min
24,366 feet · Prominence
663rd of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Before Sunrise’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

How this film scores

Draw39

$6m worldwide in 1995 — $13m in today's money.

As released$6mIn 2026 money$13mRank5,655 of 8,589In 1995113 of 156

How Draw works

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

Praise90

Critics 90, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 90.

Critics90 → 45Awards0 → 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.

Legacy62

Judged directly: Romance touchstone, launched beloved trilogy.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb8.1 from 374kWikipedia49k views a monthAge31 years

On the listsNational Film RegistryCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 454 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 39 praise 90 legacy 62averages 64, which places it at24,366 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

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them. Top billing: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert, Hanno Pöschl.