Is Beaches actually good?

Beaches sits in the 56.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 56.4% of them.

How does Beaches compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Beaches lands in the 53.5% 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 Beaches's score based on?

104 calibrated reviewers stand behind Beaches's score.

1988

global pct

56.4

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

Beaches

Name: Beaches
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Released: 1988

Scored from 104 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

56.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

53.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

67.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

104 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Beaches (1988) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and music genres. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 104 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 113 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,752 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.