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Cloud Atlas

2012 · directed by Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer · 172 min
21,865 feet · Prominence
1,753rd of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw60

$130m worldwide in 2012 — $188m in today's money.

As released$130mIn 2026 money$188mRank1,739 of 8,589In 201252 of 244

How Draw works

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

Praise61

Critics 61, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 61.

Critics61 → 30Awards0 → 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.

Legacy32

Judged directly: Ambitious sprawl with a small cult.

Verdict32 of 100IMDb7.3 from 386kWikipedia49k views a monthAge14 years

Scored beside it · 1,743 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 61 legacy 32averages 51, which places it at21,865 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

Tom Hanks22,572 ftHalle Berry21,858 ft