Is BlackBerry actually good?

BlackBerry sits in the 84.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 84.7% of them.

How does BlackBerry compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2020s, BlackBerry lands in the 88.5% 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 BlackBerry's score based on?

170 calibrated reviewers stand behind BlackBerry's score.

2023

global pct

84.7

Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s

BlackBerry

Name: BlackBerry
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Released: 2023

Scored from 170 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).

84.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

88.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles

97.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

170 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A dramatization of the rise and fall of Research In Motion, the Canadian tech company behind the BlackBerry smartphone. Awkward engineer Mike Lazaridis partners with brash businessman Jim Balsillie to turn a struggling startup into the inventor of the world's first smartphone, before missteps and the arrival of the iPhone unravel their empire.

BlackBerry is a 2023 biography, comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

The calibrated figure is built from 170 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 173 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 207 of whom clear the calibration test.