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Sometimes mere words aren't enough to describe the world of film. By The Numbers uses charts, graphics, and statistics to break movies down to their core elements.

Featured By The Numbers

Crunching the numbers on 35 years of basketball movies

by Rachel Handler, Genevieve Koski, Kevin Lincoln, Noel Murray, Keith Phipps, Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias

With the NBA Finals starting and stats geekery taking over the game, we offer a rigorous statistical analysis of basketball movies, from plausible real-world simulations to little kids dunking and everything in between. 

  • Inspired by What We Do In The Shadows, our periodic cinematic-sabermetrics feature breaks down 15 other vampire comedies by silliness, sexiness, and percentage of Nicholas Cage eating live cockroaches.

    The cold, hard stats of vampire comedies

    by Rachel Handler, Keith Phipps, Genevieve Koski, Nathan Rabin, Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias
  • Our handy charts break down all 10 of the Halloween movies in the comprehensive new Blu-ray box set, monitoring statistics from number of kills to percentage of brains being eaten by bugs.

    All 10 Halloween movies, in charts and percentages

    by Noel Murray, Keith Phipps, Nathan Rabin, Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias
  • We break down every SNL film project, from Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video to MacGruber, into a series of charts to help visualize the show’s long, not always glorious, history at the movies.

    By the numbers: Saturday Night Live goes to the movies

    by Genevieve Koski, Noel Murray, Keith Phipps, Nathan Rabin, Tasha Robinson, Matt Singer
  • Shout! Factory’s massive new Blu-ray set brings together 16 Werner Herzog films, from some of his most enduring classics to lesser-known documentaries and side roads. We offer some handy charts and summaries to help explain the similarities and make the distinctions.

    Breaking down the new Herzog collection, one chart at a time

    by Noel Murray, Keith Phipps, Nathan Rabin, Tasha Robinson, Matt Singer, Scott Tobias
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