Is Barefoot Gen actually good?

Barefoot Gen sits in the 95.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 95.0% of them.

How does Barefoot Gen compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Barefoot Gen lands in the 94.8% 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 Barefoot Gen's score based on?

36 calibrated reviewers stand behind Barefoot Gen's score.

1983

global pct

95.0

Film · 1983 · Films · 1980s

Barefoot Gen

Name: Barefoot Gen
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Released: 1983

Scored from 36 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

95.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

94.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

95.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

36 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1983, Barefoot Gen is an animation, biography and drama film.

Only 36 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 36 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.