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Highlander

1986 · directed by Russell Mulcahy · 116 min
22,789 feet · Prominence
1,536th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw47

Lifetime worldwide gross $13m, re-releases included; about $39m in 2026 money.

Rank4,760 of 11,051In 198663 of 141

How Draw works

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

Praise47

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics47 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.

Legacy62

Judged directly: 'There can be only one'; Queen soundtrack.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb7 from 155kWikipedia81k views a monthAge40 years

Scored beside it · 543 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 47 praise 47 legacy 62averages 52, placing it at22,789 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.

Whose apex this is

▲ Christopher Lambert

In these careers — elevation for this film

Christopher Lambert19,323 ftSean Connery18,794 ftClancy Brown18,752 ft