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1979
global pct
95.9

Film · 1979 · Films · 1970s

Alien

Scored from 1,517 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

95.9%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
95.4%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
99.9%
AI-adjusted percentile
1,517 calibrated reviewers

Summary

The crew of the commercial spaceship Nostromo responds to a distress signal and lands on a remote planet, where they discover a derelict alien spacecraft. Upon exploration, they inadvertently bring aboard a parasitic extraterrestrial organism. The alien begins systematically hunting the crew members as they struggle to survive aboard their ship.

Ridley Scott directed Alien, a science fiction, horror and thriller film from 1979. It was made in the United States. It stars Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt and Veronica Cartwright. The runtime is 117 minutes. It is rated R.

1,517 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 1,593 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 20,291 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them.

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Is Alien (1979) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers
1,517

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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