Is Affliction actually good?

Affliction sits in the 44.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 44.7% of them.

How does Affliction compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Affliction lands in the 42.1% 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 Affliction's score based on?

150 calibrated reviewers stand behind Affliction's score.

1997

global pct

44.7

Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s

Affliction

Name: Affliction
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1997

Scored from 150 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

44.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

42.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

35.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

150 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A troubled small-town New Hampshire sheriff, haunted by an abusive father and a failing personal life, becomes obsessed with investigating a hunting accident he believes was actually a murder. As his fixation deepens, his grip on reality, his job, and his relationships unravels.

Affliction (1997) is a film IMDb files under the drama, mystery and thriller genres.

150 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 158 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 229 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.