Is A Soldier's Story actually good?

A Soldier's Story sits in the 93.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 93.9% of them.

How does A Soldier's Story compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, A Soldier's Story lands in the 93.7% 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 Soldier's Story's score based on?

53 calibrated reviewers stand behind A Soldier's Story's score.

1984

global pct

93.9

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

A Soldier's Story

Name: A Soldier's Story
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1984

Scored from 53 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

93.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

93.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

96.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

53 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A Soldier's Story is a 1984 crime, drama and mystery film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 53 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 54 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.

Is A Soldier's Story (1984) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 53
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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