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Devil in a Blue Dress

1995
22,300 feet · Prominence
1,586th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw46

$16m worldwide in 1995 — $35m in today's money.

As released$16mIn 2026 money$35mRank4,381 of 8,589In 199579 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.

Praise85

Critics 85, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 85.

Critics85 → 43Awards0 → 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.

Legacy30

Judged directly: Fine Black noir, small following.

Verdict30 of 100IMDb6.8 from 27kWikipedia12k views a monthAge31 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 1,890 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 46 praise 85 legacy 30averages 54, which places it at22,300 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

Denzel Washington22,238 ft