Is A Civil Action actually good?

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

How does A Civil Action compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, A Civil Action lands in the 56.7% 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 Civil Action's score based on?

137 calibrated reviewers stand behind A Civil Action's score.

1998

global pct

58.1

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

A Civil Action

Name: A Civil Action
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: 1998

Scored from 137 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

58.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

56.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

72.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

137 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A slick personal injury lawyer takes on what he thinks will be a lucrative case representing families in a Massachusetts town whose children died of leukemia, suing two corporations accused of contaminating the local water supply. As the litigation drags on, he becomes personally consumed by the pursuit of justice, risking his firm's finances and his own career against a far more experienced opposing counsel.

Released in 1998, A Civil Action is a biography and drama film.

137 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 139 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is A Civil Action (1998) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 137
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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