Is After Hours actually good?

After Hours sits in the 81.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 81.8% of them.

How does After Hours compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, After Hours 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 After Hours's score based on?

263 calibrated reviewers stand behind After Hours's score.

1985

global pct

81.8

Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s

After Hours

Name: After Hours
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Released: 1985

Scored from 263 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

81.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

80.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

96.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

263 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A mild-mannered Manhattan word processor heads downtown for a late-night date with a woman he just met in a coffee shop. What begins as a simple trip to SoHo spirals into an increasingly surreal odyssey as he loses his cab fare and finds himself stranded, pursued, and tangled with a string of eccentric strangers as he struggles to make it home before morning.

After Hours (1985) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, crime and drama genres. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 263 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 269 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.