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Dazed and Confused

1993 · directed by Richard Linklater · 102 min
24,946 feet · Prominence
510th of 15,261 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw42

$8m worldwide in 1993 — $19m in today's money.

As released$8mIn 2026 money$19mRank5,236 of 8,589In 199398 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.

Praise88

Critics 88, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 88.

Critics88 → 44Awards0 → 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.

Legacy70

Judged directly: 'Alright alright alright'; stoner-canon rewatch staple.

Verdict70 of 100IMDb7.6 from 215kWikipedia61k views a monthAge33 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 295 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 42 praise 88 legacy 70averages 67, which places it at24,946 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

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