Is A Face in the Crowd actually good?

A Face in the Crowd sits in the 97.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 97.4% of them.

How does A Face in the Crowd compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1950s, A Face in the Crowd lands in the 95.9% 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 Face in the Crowd's score based on?

172 calibrated reviewers stand behind A Face in the Crowd's score.

1957

global pct

97.4

Film · 1957 · Films · 1950s

A Face in the Crowd

Name: A Face in the Crowd
Genre: Drama, Music
Released: 1957

Scored from 172 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).

97.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

95.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1950s · 561 titles

99.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

172 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A small-town Arkansas drifter named Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes is discovered in a county jail by a radio producer and quickly rises to become a beloved folksy media personality with enormous television influence. As his fame grows, so does his ego and political ambition, and those closest to him begin to see the dangerous demagogue behind the down-home charm.

Released in 1957, A Face in the Crowd is a drama and music film.

172 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 175 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1950s films — 561 of them.

Is A Face in the Crowd (1957) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1950s · 561 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 172
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1950s

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