Is Blinded by the Light actually good?

Blinded by the Light sits in the 54.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 54.7% of them.

How does Blinded by the Light compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Blinded by the Light lands in the 61.6% 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 Blinded by the Light's score based on?

251 calibrated reviewers stand behind Blinded by the Light's score.

2019

global pct

54.7

Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s

Blinded by the Light

Name: Blinded by the Light
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Released: 2019

Scored from 251 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

54.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

61.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

66.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

251 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1987 Luton, England, Javed, a British-Pakistani teenager struggling with his strict father, racism, and Thatcher-era economic gloom, discovers the music of Bruce Springsteen through a classmate. The Boss's lyrics give him the courage to pursue his dream of becoming a writer and to navigate family, love, and identity.

Blinded by the Light is a 2019 comedy, drama and music film. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 379 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. 251 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 259 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Blinded by the Light (2019) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 251
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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