Is Bringing Down the House actually good?

Bringing Down the House sits in the 19.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 19.5% of them.

How does Bringing Down the House compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Bringing Down the House lands in the 21.2% 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 Bringing Down the House's score based on?

157 calibrated reviewers stand behind Bringing Down the House's score.

2003

global pct

19.5

Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s

Bringing Down the House

Name: Bringing Down the House
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2003

Scored from 157 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

19.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

21.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

6.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

157 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A buttoned-up, recently divorced tax attorney meets a woman online who turns out to be an escaped convict insisting he help clear her name. As she upends his orderly suburban life, he is forced to loosen up, reconnect with his kids, and prove her innocence while dodging his nosy neighbors and skeptical colleagues.

Bringing Down the House is a 2003 comedy film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 157 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 162 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 5,546 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is Bringing Down the House (2003) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 157
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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