Is Critters actually good?

Critters sits in the 55.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 55.6% of them.

How does Critters compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Critters lands in the 52.8% 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 Critters's score based on?

143 calibrated reviewers stand behind Critters's score.

1986

global pct

55.6

Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s

Critters

Name: Critters
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Released: 1986

Scored from 143 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

55.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

52.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

67.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

143 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A pack of voracious, porcupine-like alien creatures called Crites escapes from an intergalactic prison and crash-lands near a rural Kansas farm. As the Brown family fights to survive the night, two shape-shifting bounty hunters pursue the creatures across the small town, leaving chaos in their wake.

Released in 1986, Critters is a comedy, horror and science-fiction film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 143 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 146 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,127 of whom clear the calibration test.