Is Boys Don't Cry actually good?

Boys Don't Cry sits in the 78.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 78.8% of them.

How does Boys Don't Cry compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Boys Don't Cry lands in the 79.1% 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 Boys Don't Cry's score based on?

259 calibrated reviewers stand behind Boys Don't Cry's score.

1999

global pct

78.8

Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s

Boys Don't Cry

Name: Boys Don't Cry
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Released: 1999

Scored from 259 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

78.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

79.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

95.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

259 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Based on a true story, a young trans man named Brandon Teena moves to a small Nebraska town, where he forges new friendships and begins a tender romance with a local woman. As Brandon builds a life on his own terms, the discovery of his birth identity by those around him sets off a devastating chain of events.

Released in 1999, Boys Don't Cry is a biography, crime and drama film.

259 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 272 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is Boys Don't Cry (1999) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 259
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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