Is Dance with a Stranger actually good?

Dance with a Stranger sits in the 84.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 84.5% of them.

How does Dance with a Stranger compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Dance with a Stranger lands in the 82.8% 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 Dance with a Stranger's score based on?

28 calibrated reviewers stand behind Dance with a Stranger's score.

1985

global pct

84.5

Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s

Dance with a Stranger

Name: Dance with a Stranger
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Released: 1985

Scored from 28 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

84.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

82.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

86.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

28 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1985, Dance with a Stranger is a biography, crime and drama film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 39 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 28 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 30 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.

Is Dance with a Stranger (1985) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 28
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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