RankquantRQ
Dark Star (1974) poster
1974
global pct
54.6

Film · 1974 · Films · 1970s

Dark Star

Scored from 168 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

54.6%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
45.7%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
65.0%
AI-adjusted percentile
168 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In the distant future, the bored and demoralized crew of the scout ship Dark Star drift through deep space on a mission to destroy unstable planets in star systems slated for future colonization. As their long voyage wears on their sanity, malfunctions mount, including a temperamental alien mascot loose in the ship and a thermostellar bomb that begins contemplating its own existence before it is due to detonate.

Released in 1974, Dark Star is a comedy and science-fiction film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 612 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 168 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 172 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Dark Star (1974) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers
168

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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