Is Ballad of a Soldier actually good?

Ballad of a Soldier sits in the 98.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 98.0% of them.

How does Ballad of a Soldier compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1950s, Ballad of a Soldier lands in the 97.1% 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 Ballad of a Soldier's score based on?

59 calibrated reviewers stand behind Ballad of a Soldier's score.

1959

global pct

98.0

Film · 1959 · Films · 1950s

Ballad of a Soldier

Name: Ballad of a Soldier
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Released: 1959

Scored from 59 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).

98.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

97.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1950s · 561 titles

98.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

59 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1959, Ballad of a Soldier is a drama, romance and war film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1950s films — 561 of them. Only 59 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 61 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 142 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is Ballad of a Soldier (1959) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1950s · 561 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 59
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1950s

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