Tag: data

Two of cinema's biggest prizes. Same art form, very different taste. We pulled runtime, genre, and origin data on every Palme d'Or and Best Picture winner since 2005 — and the numbers reveal two awards ceremonies that agree on almost nothing.

We queried 367,000 feature-length films from the spameri.cz database spanning six decades. The answer is yes — but not the way you think. The median movie barely budged. The real story is at the top.

Everyone says movies are getting worse. The data disagrees — at least for thrillers. We dug into 53,000 thriller movies in the spameri.cz database and found a surprising trend: after a decade-long dip, thriller ratings have been climbing since 2019.

Out of 1,132,666 movies in the spameri.cz database, only 479 score above 7.5 on Trakt while having fewer than 1,000 votes. We dug through them all. These are the 8 that deserve your attention right now.

Twenty years ago, Alfonso Cuarón made a movie about a world falling apart — refugee camps, government crackdowns, a population too exhausted to hope. In 2026, it doesn't feel like science fiction anymore. It feels like a documentary from next year.

The 98th Academy Awards gave us records, firsts, and a few curveballs. Jordan Blake digs into the data behind the golden statues — from Sinners' record-shattering 16 nominations to the birth of an entirely new Oscar category.