Is Basic Instinct actually good?

Basic Instinct sits in the 65.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 65.7% of them.

How does Basic Instinct compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Basic Instinct lands in the 65.5% 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 Basic Instinct's score based on?

361 calibrated reviewers stand behind Basic Instinct's score.

1992

global pct

65.7

Film · 1992 · Films · 1990s

Basic Instinct

Name: Basic Instinct
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Released: 1992

Scored from 361 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

65.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

65.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

87.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

361 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A San Francisco homicide detective investigates the brutal ice-pick murder of a rock star and becomes dangerously entangled with the prime suspect, a seductive crime novelist whose latest book describes the killing in detail. As the investigation deepens, he struggles to separate manipulation from attraction while the body count rises.

Basic Instinct (1992) is a film IMDb files under the drama, mystery and romance genres.

The calibrated figure is built from 361 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 371 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,845 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.

Is Basic Instinct (1992) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 361
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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