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Menace II Society

1993 · directed by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes · 97 min
24,412 feet · Prominence
694th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw51

Lifetime worldwide gross $28m, re-releases included; about $64m in 2026 money.

Rank3,769 of 11,051In 199363 of 199

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics80 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.

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 · 580 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 51 praise 80 legacy 60averages 64, placing it at24,412 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

▲ Tyrin Turner▲ Glenn Plummer

In these careers — elevation for this film

Larenz Tate19,530 ftTyrin Turner19,152 ftJada Pinkett Smith18,407 ftSamuel L. Jackson18,065 ftGlenn Plummer17,934 ftCharles S. Dutton17,647 ftClifton Collins Jr.17,641 ft