Is Buck and the Preacher actually good?

Buck and the Preacher sits in the 64.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 64.3% of them.

How does Buck and the Preacher compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Buck and the Preacher lands in the 55.6% 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 Buck and the Preacher's score based on?

24 calibrated reviewers stand behind Buck and the Preacher's score.

1972

global pct

64.3

Film · 1972 · Films · 1970s

Buck and the Preacher

Name: Buck and the Preacher
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Released: 1972

Scored from 24 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

64.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

55.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

68.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

24 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Buck and the Preacher is a 1972 adventure, drama and western film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 33 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 24 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 26 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.

Is Buck and the Preacher (1972) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 24
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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