Is Awakenings actually good?

Awakenings sits in the 91.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 91.3% of them.

How does Awakenings compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Awakenings lands in the 93.5% 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 Awakenings's score based on?

237 calibrated reviewers stand behind Awakenings's score.

1990

global pct

91.3

Film · 1990 · Films · 1990s

Awakenings

Name: Awakenings
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: 1990

Scored from 237 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

91.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

93.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

99.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

237 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A dedicated neurologist takes a job at a Bronx hospital ward of catatonic patients, survivors of a 1920s encephalitis epidemic. Experimenting with the drug L-Dopa, he awakens one patient, Leonard, after decades of frozen silence, and the two men confront the fragile, fleeting nature of the gift as other patients are revived.

Awakenings is a 1990 biography and drama film.

237 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 247 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.