Is 1984 actually good?

1984 sits in the 64.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 64.3% of them.

How does 1984 compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, 1984 lands in the 61.7% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is 1984's score based on?

241 calibrated reviewers stand behind 1984's score.

1984

global pct

64.3

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

1984

Name: 1984
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Released: 1984

Scored from 241 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

64.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

61.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

85.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

241 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In a totalitarian superstate ruled by the Party and its omnipresent leader Big Brother, low-ranking worker Winston Smith rewrites history for a living while secretly nursing his hatred of the regime. He begins a forbidden love affair with a fellow worker, Julia, and is drawn toward what he believes is an underground resistance, risking everything under the constant gaze of the Thought Police.

1984 (1984) is a film IMDb files under the drama and science-fiction genres.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,896 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 241 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 245 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.