Is Conan the Barbarian actually good?

Conan the Barbarian sits in the 86.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 86.6% of them.

How does Conan the Barbarian compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Conan the Barbarian lands in the 85.1% 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 Conan the Barbarian's score based on?

379 calibrated reviewers stand behind Conan the Barbarian's score.

1982

global pct

86.6

Film · 1982 · Films · 1980s

Conan the Barbarian

Name: Conan the Barbarian
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Released: 1982

Scored from 379 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

86.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

85.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

98.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

379 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After his village is slaughtered and his parents killed by the warlord Thulsa Doom, a young boy is enslaved and grows into a fearsome warrior. Freed years later, Conan sets out across a brutal ancient world with a thief and an archer at his side, hunting the snake-worshipping cult leader who destroyed his family and seeking revenge.

Released in 1982, Conan the Barbarian is an adventure and fantasy film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,790 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 379 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 399 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Conan the Barbarian (1982) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 379
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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