Is Better Off Dead actually good?

Better Off Dead sits in the 84.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 84.9% of them.

How does Better Off Dead compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Better Off Dead lands in the 83.3% 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 Better Off Dead's score based on?

163 calibrated reviewers stand behind Better Off Dead's score.

1985

global pct

84.9

Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s

Better Off Dead

Name: Better Off Dead
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: 1985

Scored from 163 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

84.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

83.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

97.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

163 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After his girlfriend dumps him for the captain of the ski team, depressed high schooler Lane Meyer makes increasingly absurd attempts to win her back or end it all. As he contends with a deranged paperboy, a bizarre family, and a relentless drag-racing rivalry, he finds unexpected hope in Monique, a French exchange student staying next door.

Released in 1985, Better Off Dead is a comedy and romance film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 163 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 166 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Better Off Dead (1985) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 163
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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