Is Blackfish actually good?

Blackfish sits in the 93.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 93.6% of them.

How does Blackfish compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Blackfish lands in the 95.6% 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 Blackfish's score based on?

148 calibrated reviewers stand behind Blackfish's score.

2013

global pct

93.6

Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s

Blackfish

Name: Blackfish
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Thriller
Released: 2013

Scored from 148 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

93.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

95.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

99.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

148 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A documentary examining the controversial captivity of orcas at marine parks, centered on Tilikum, a performing killer whale at SeaWorld linked to the deaths of several trainers. Through interviews with former trainers and marine experts, the film investigates the psychological and physical toll captivity takes on these intelligent animals and questions the practices of the entertainment industry that profits from them.

Blackfish is a 2013 documentary, drama and thriller film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,229 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 148 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 151 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.