Is Big actually good?

Big sits in the 89.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 89.0% of them.

How does Big compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Big lands in the 88.6% 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 Big's score based on?

241 calibrated reviewers stand behind Big's score.

1988

global pct

89.0

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

Big

Name: Big
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Released: 1988

Scored from 241 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

89.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

88.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

98.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

241 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After being humiliated in front of a girl he likes, 12-year-old Josh Baskin makes a wish on a mysterious carnival fortune-teller machine to be 'big' and wakes up overnight in the body of an adult. Forced to flee home, he lands a job at a Manhattan toy company, where his childlike instincts catapult him up the corporate ladder and into a complicated romance with a co-worker who has no idea who he really is.

Big is a 1988 comedy, drama and fantasy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 241 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 248 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.