Is Central Station actually good?

Central Station sits in the 93.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 93.2% of them.

How does Central Station compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Central Station lands in the 95.1% 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 Central Station's score based on?

141 calibrated reviewers stand behind Central Station's score.

1998

global pct

93.2

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

Central Station

Name: Central Station
Genre: Drama
Released: 1998

Scored from 141 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

93.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

95.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

98.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

141 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In Rio de Janeiro, Dora, a jaded former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate customers at the Central Station, reluctantly takes in a young boy named Josue after his mother is killed in an accident. Together they embark on a journey across Brazil to find the father he has never met, a trip that gradually transforms them both.

Central Station (1998) is a film IMDb files under the drama genre.

141 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 152 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. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 648 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is Central Station (1998) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 141
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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