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Ronin

1998 · directed by John Frankenheimer · 122 min
22,550 feet · Prominence
1,907th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw58

Lifetime worldwide gross $71m, re-releases included; about $143m in 2026 money.

Rank2,256 of 11,051In 199848 of 198

How Draw works

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

Praise69

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics69 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.

Legacy42

Judged directly: Car chases are an action benchmark.

Verdict42 of 100IMDb7.2 from 204kWikipedia24k views a monthAge28 years

Scored beside it · 1,648 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 58 praise 69 legacy 42averages 56, placing it at22,550 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

Robert De Niro20,006 ftJean Reno19,259 ftNatascha McElhone18,731 ftStellan Skarsgård18,542 ftJonathan Pryce18,271 ftSean Bean18,129 ftMichael Lonsdale17,940 ft