Is Crash actually good?

Crash sits in the 22.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 22.0% of them.

How does Crash compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Crash lands in the 20.4% 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 Crash's score based on?

236 calibrated reviewers stand behind Crash's score.

1996

global pct

22.0

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

Crash

Name: Crash
Genre: Drama
Released: 1996

Scored from 236 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

22.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

20.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

6.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

236 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After surviving a head-on car collision, a television producer is drawn into a clandestine subculture of people who find erotic excitement in staging and reenacting auto accidents. Led by a charismatic scar-covered guru obsessed with celebrity crashes, he and his wife sink deeper into a dangerous fusion of sex, technology, and twisted metal. Directed by David Cronenberg and adapted from J.G. Ballard's novel.

Crash (1996) is a film IMDb files under the drama genre.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 236 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 243 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,847 of whom clear the calibration test.