Is Bad Lieutenant actually good?

Bad Lieutenant sits in the 52.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 52.9% of them.

How does Bad Lieutenant compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Bad Lieutenant lands in the 51.2% 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 Bad Lieutenant's score based on?

181 calibrated reviewers stand behind Bad Lieutenant's score.

1992

global pct

52.9

Film · 1992 · Films · 1990s

Bad Lieutenant

Name: Bad Lieutenant
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1992

Scored from 181 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

52.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

51.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

59.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

181 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A corrupt, drug-addicted New York City police lieutenant spirals deeper into gambling debts, narcotics abuse, and depravity while nominally investigating the brutal rape of a young nun. As his self-destruction accelerates, the nun's stunning act of forgiveness toward her attackers forces him to confront questions of guilt, grace, and redemption.

Released in 1992, Bad Lieutenant is a crime, drama and thriller film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 981 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 181 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 182 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Bad Lieutenant (1992) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 181
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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