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Before Sunrise

1995 · directed by Richard Linklater · 101 min
24,642 feet · Prominence
609th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw39

Lifetime worldwide gross $6m, re-releases included; about $13m in 2026 money.

Rank6,637 of 11,051In 1995136 of 192

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics90 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. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

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 · 502 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 39 praise 90 legacy 62averages 64, placing it at24,642 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

Ethan Hawke19,883 ftJulie Delpy19,597 ftHanno Pöschl17,666 ftAndrea Eckert17,661 ft