Is Barfly actually good?

Barfly sits in the 83.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 83.8% of them.

How does Barfly compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Barfly lands in the 82.1% 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 Barfly's score based on?

76 calibrated reviewers stand behind Barfly's score.

1987

global pct

83.8

Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s

Barfly

Name: Barfly
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1987

Scored from 76 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

83.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

82.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

94.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

76 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1987, Barfly is a comedy, drama and romance film.

Only 76 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 80 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. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 417 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.