Is Cabaret actually good?

Cabaret sits in the 87.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 87.8% of them.

How does Cabaret compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Cabaret lands in the 84.7% 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 Cabaret's score based on?

219 calibrated reviewers stand behind Cabaret's score.

1972

global pct

87.8

Film · 1972 · Films · 1970s

Cabaret

Name: Cabaret
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Released: 1972

Scored from 219 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

87.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

84.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

98.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

219 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1931 Berlin, as the Nazi party rises to power, American cabaret singer Sally Bowles performs at the decadent Kit Kat Klub and begins a turbulent romance with a British academic newly arrived in the city. Their bohemian lives, entangled with a wealthy playboy, unfold against the darkening backdrop of a society sliding into fascism.

Cabaret is a 1972 drama, music and musical film.

219 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 226 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,600 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them.