Is A Fish Called Wanda actually good?

A Fish Called Wanda sits in the 77.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 77.3% of them.

How does A Fish Called Wanda compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, A Fish Called Wanda lands in the 74.9% 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 Fish Called Wanda's score based on?

259 calibrated reviewers stand behind A Fish Called Wanda's score.

1988

global pct

77.3

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

A Fish Called Wanda

Name: A Fish Called Wanda
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1988

Scored from 259 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

77.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

74.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

95.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

259 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A gang of mismatched jewel thieves pulls off a London heist, then turns on each other as they scheme to recover the hidden loot. A seductive con artist cozies up to the uptight barrister defending their imprisoned ringleader, while a stuttering animal-lover and a trigger-happy American add to the chaos.

A Fish Called Wanda is a 1988 comedy and crime film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

The calibrated figure is built from 259 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 263 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,709 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is A Fish Called Wanda (1988) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 259
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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