Is A Prophet actually good?

A Prophet sits in the 91.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 91.3% of them.

How does A Prophet compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, A Prophet lands in the 94.7% 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 Prophet's score based on?

168 calibrated reviewers stand behind A Prophet's score.

2009

global pct

91.3

Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s

A Prophet

Name: A Prophet
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 2009

Scored from 168 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

91.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

94.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

98.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

168 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A young French-Arab man is sentenced to six years in a French prison, where he is illiterate and alone. Forced into servitude by a Corsican mob boss who controls the prison, he slowly learns to read, observe, and maneuver between rival factions, gradually building his own power base from the inside.

A Prophet (2009) is a film IMDb files under the crime and drama genres.

168 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 174 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.