Is City of Lies actually good?

City of Lies sits in the 67.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 67.5% of them.

How does City of Lies compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, City of Lies lands in the 74.1% 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 City of Lies's score based on?

119 calibrated reviewers stand behind City of Lies's score.

2018

global pct

67.5

Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s

City of Lies

Name: City of Lies
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Released: 2018

Scored from 119 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

67.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

74.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

85.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

119 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A veteran LAPD detective and a journalist team up to investigate the unsolved 1997 murder of rapper Notorious B.I.G. As they dig deeper, they uncover potential police corruption and links to the earlier killing of Tupac Shakur, facing resistance from within the department as they pursue the truth.

City of Lies is a 2018 biography, crime and drama film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 64 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 119 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 135 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is City of Lies (2018) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 119
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

What else scores like City of Lies?

Film · 2011 · n=1,260