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Dead Man

1995 · directed by Jim Jarmusch · 122 min
22,841 feet · Prominence
1,504th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw30

Lifetime worldwide gross $1m, re-releases included; about $2m in 2026 money.

Rank8,680 of 11,051In 1995169 of 192

How Draw works

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

Praise66

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics66 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.

Legacy58

Judged directly: Criterion Jarmusch, enduring cult canon.

Verdict58 of 100IMDb7.5 from 108kWikipedia19k views a monthAge31 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 709 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 30 praise 66 legacy 58averages 51, placing it at22,841 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

▲ Gary Farmer

In these careers — elevation for this film

Johnny Depp19,550 ftGary Farmer18,428 ftLance Henriksen18,090 ftRobert Mitchum18,035 ftJohn Hurt17,956 ftMichael Wincott17,882 ftCrispin Glover17,849 ftBilly Bob Thornton17,645 ftAlfred Molina17,644 ftGabriel Byrne17,641 ft