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A Christmas Tale

2008 · directed by Arnaud Desplechin · 152 min
22,555 feet · Prominence
1,893rd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw38

Lifetime worldwide gross $7m, re-releases included; about $11m in 2026 money.

Rank6,853 of 11,051In 2008195 of 300

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics85 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.

Legacy40

Not judged yet, so Legacy falls back to footprint: how many still rate it, how highly, and for how long.

IMDb7 from 8kWikipedia2k views a monthAge18 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
How Legacy works

Canon list membership, reach (Wikipedia traffic above IMDb votes) and time served. Every signal behind it keeps updating, which is what separates Legacy from Praise.

draw 38 praise 85 legacy 40averages 54, placing it at22,555 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

▲ Anne Consigny

In these careers — elevation for this film

Catherine Deneuve19,152 ftMathieu Amalric19,105 ftAnne Consigny18,469 ftChiara Mastroianni18,312 ft