Is A Boy and His Dog actually good?

A Boy and His Dog sits in the 51.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 51.4% of them.

How does A Boy and His Dog compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, A Boy and His Dog lands in the 42.7% 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 A Boy and His Dog's score based on?

123 calibrated reviewers stand behind A Boy and His Dog's score.

1975

global pct

51.4

Film · 1975 · Films · 1970s

A Boy and His Dog

Name: A Boy and His Dog
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Released: 1975

Scored from 123 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

51.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

42.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

54.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

123 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a young scavenger named Vic roams the desert with his telepathic dog Blood, who helps him hunt for food and women in exchange for protection. When Vic follows an alluring young woman into a bizarre underground society that has preserved a twisted version of pre-war Americana, he discovers their plans for him are far from welcoming.

A Boy and His Dog is a 1975 comedy, drama and science-fiction film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1 of whom clear the calibration test. 2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 123 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 125 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is A Boy and His Dog (1975) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 123
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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