Is Chungking Express actually good?

Chungking Express sits in the 78.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 78.7% of them.

How does Chungking Express compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Chungking Express lands in the 78.9% 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 Chungking Express's score based on?

210 calibrated reviewers stand behind Chungking Express's score.

1994

global pct

78.7

Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s

Chungking Express

Name: Chungking Express
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Released: 1994

Scored from 210 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

78.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

78.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

95.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

210 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Two loosely connected stories follow lovesick Hong Kong cops in the wake of failed relationships. The first trails a heartbroken officer obsessed with canned pineapples who crosses paths with a mysterious woman in a blonde wig. The second centers on a beat cop whose quirky snack-bar admirer secretly lets herself into his apartment and quietly rearranges his life.

Chungking Express (1994) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, crime and drama genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,000 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 210 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 222 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Chungking Express (1994) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 210
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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