Is An Officer and a Gentleman actually good?

An Officer and a Gentleman sits in the 75.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 75.2% of them.

How does An Officer and a Gentleman compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, An Officer and a Gentleman lands in the 72.5% 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 An Officer and a Gentleman's score based on?

140 calibrated reviewers stand behind An Officer and a Gentleman's score.

1982

global pct

75.2

Film · 1982 · Films · 1980s

An Officer and a Gentleman

Name: An Officer and a Gentleman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1982

Scored from 140 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

75.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

72.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

92.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

140 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A drifting young man enrolls in the Navy's grueling Aviation Officer Candidate School, where a hard-edged drill instructor pushes him to confront his selfishness. While training, he gets involved with a local factory worker hoping for a better life, and must decide what kind of man he wants to become.

Released in 1982, An Officer and a Gentleman is a drama and romance film.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 140 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 140 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 140
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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