Is Apt Pupil actually good?

Apt Pupil sits in the 44.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 44.8% of them.

How does Apt Pupil compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Apt Pupil lands in the 42.3% 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 Apt Pupil's score based on?

198 calibrated reviewers stand behind Apt Pupil's score.

1998

global pct

44.8

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

Apt Pupil

Name: Apt Pupil
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1998

Scored from 198 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

44.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

42.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

35.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

198 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A bright American high school student discovers that an elderly neighbor in his quiet suburb is a Nazi war criminal living under a false identity. Fascinated by the Holocaust, the teen blackmails the old man into recounting his atrocities in vivid detail, but their twisted bargain awakens dark impulses in both of them, with increasingly dangerous consequences.

Apt Pupil is a 1998 crime, drama and thriller film.

198 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 199 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,017 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus.