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Menace II Society

1993 · directed by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes · 97 min
24,358 feet · Prominence
666th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw51

$28m worldwide in 1993 — $64m in today's money.

As released$28mIn 2026 money$64mRank3,398 of 8,589In 199358 of 162

How Draw works

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

Praise80

Critics 80, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 80.

Critics80 → 40Awards0 → 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.

Legacy60

Judged directly: Hood-cinema canon, endlessly quoted and sampled.

Verdict60 of 100IMDb7.5 from 68kWikipedia23k views a monthAge33 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 500 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 51 praise 80 legacy 60averages 64, which places it at24,358 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

Samuel L. Jackson21,633 ft