Is A Fistful of Dollars actually good?

A Fistful of Dollars sits in the 85.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.1% of them.

How does A Fistful of Dollars compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, A Fistful of Dollars lands in the 80.1% 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 Fistful of Dollars's score based on?

363 calibrated reviewers stand behind A Fistful of Dollars's score.

1964

global pct

85.1

Film · 1964 · Films · 1960s

A Fistful of Dollars

Name: A Fistful of Dollars
Genre: Drama, Western
Released: 1964

Scored from 363 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

85.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

80.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

98.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

363 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A mysterious, poncho-clad gunslinger drifts into a desolate Mexican border town gripped by a violent feud between two ruthless families, the Rojos and the Baxters. Recognizing an opportunity for profit, the Stranger plays both sides against each other, hiring himself out to each clan while quietly engineering their mutual destruction.

Released in 1964, A Fistful of Dollars is a drama and western film.

1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 363 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 369 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is A Fistful of Dollars (1964) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 363
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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