Is Dancer in the Dark actually good?

Dancer in the Dark sits in the 66.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 66.7% of them.

How does Dancer in the Dark compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Dancer in the Dark lands in the 72.1% 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 Dancer in the Dark's score based on?

452 calibrated reviewers stand behind Dancer in the Dark's score.

2000

global pct

66.7

Film · 2000 · Films · 2000s

Dancer in the Dark

Name: Dancer in the Dark
Genre: Drama, Musical
Released: 2000
Duration: 2 h 14 min
Cast: Björk, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Catherine Deneuve, Joel Grey

Scored from 452 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

66.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

72.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

89.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

452 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A factory worker slowly going blind struggles to save money for eye surgery to prevent her son from inheriting the same condition. She escapes her hardship through elaborate musical fantasies inspired by classic films, maintaining her dreams despite mounting personal and financial pressure.

Dancer in the Dark is a 2000 drama and musical film starring Björk, David Morse and Peter Stormare. Its country of origin is listed as Denmark. Its certificate is R. Lars von Trier directed it. It runs 2h 14m.

7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,403 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 452 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 485 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

DramaMusical

Is Dancer in the Dark (2000) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 452
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

What else scores like Dancer in the Dark?

Film · 2001 · n=1,348