Is Bowfinger actually good?

Bowfinger sits in the 58.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 58.3% of them.

How does Bowfinger compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Bowfinger lands in the 56.8% 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 Bowfinger's score based on?

257 calibrated reviewers stand behind Bowfinger's score.

1999

global pct

58.3

Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s

Bowfinger

Name: Bowfinger
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1999

Scored from 257 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

58.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

56.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

75.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

257 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A desperate, broke film producer hatches a scheme to shoot a low-budget sci-fi movie starring a famous action star without the star's knowledge or consent. He hires a clueless lookalike as a stand-in and sends his ragtag crew to ambush the real celebrity in public, capturing his panicked reactions as footage for the film.

Bowfinger is a 1999 comedy film. Its comedy subtype is Satire.

257 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 262 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,637 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus.