Is 8 Mile actually good?

8 Mile sits in the 58.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 58.1% of them.

How does 8 Mile compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, 8 Mile lands in the 63.7% 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 8 Mile's score based on?

410 calibrated reviewers stand behind 8 Mile's score.

2002

global pct

58.1

Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s

8 Mile

Name: 8 Mile
Genre: Drama, Music
Released: 2002

Scored from 410 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

58.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

63.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

76.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

410 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A young white rapper from a Detroit trailer park struggles to find his voice while battling poverty, a chaotic home life, and a rival crew. Working a dead-end factory job and crashing with his unstable mother, he sets his sights on proving himself in the city's underground hip-hop battle scene.

8 Mile is a 2002 drama and music film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 152,298 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 410 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 436 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is 8 Mile (2002) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 410
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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