Is Bound actually good?

Bound sits in the 85.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.2% of them.

How does Bound compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Bound lands in the 86.4% 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 Bound's score based on?

189 calibrated reviewers stand behind Bound's score.

1996

global pct

85.2

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

Bound

Name: Bound
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Released: 1996

Scored from 189 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

85.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

86.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

97.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

189 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An ex-con working as a handywoman in a Chicago apartment building begins a passionate affair with the girlfriend of the mobster next door. Together, the two women hatch a daring plan to steal millions in mob money and frame him for the theft, but the scheme quickly spirals into a tense game of nerves, deception, and survival.

Bound (1996) is a film IMDb files under the crime and thriller genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. 189 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 195 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,263 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.