Is Chess Story actually good?

Chess Story sits in the 87.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 87.9% of them.

How does Chess Story compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2020s, Chess Story lands in the 90.9% 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 Chess Story's score based on?

15 calibrated reviewers stand behind Chess Story's score.

2021

global pct

87.9

Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s

Chess Story

Name: Chess Story
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Released: 2021

Scored from 15 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).

87.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

90.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles

81.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

15 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 2021, Chess Story is a drama, thriller and war film.

Only 15 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 16 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 3 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.