Is Betty Blue actually good?

Betty Blue sits in the 70.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 70.4% of them.

How does Betty Blue compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Betty Blue lands in the 67.1% 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 Betty Blue's score based on?

89 calibrated reviewers stand behind Betty Blue's score.

1986

global pct

70.4

Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s

Betty Blue

Name: Betty Blue
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1986

Scored from 89 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

70.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

67.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

86.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

89 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Betty Blue (1986) is a film IMDb files under the drama and romance genres.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. Only 89 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 90 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 631 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.