Is Days of Heaven actually good?

Days of Heaven sits in the 82.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 82.4% of them.

How does Days of Heaven compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Days of Heaven lands in the 78.0% 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 Days of Heaven's score based on?

206 calibrated reviewers stand behind Days of Heaven's score.

1978

global pct

82.4

Film · 1978 · Films · 1970s

Days of Heaven

Name: Days of Heaven
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1978

Scored from 206 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

82.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

78.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

96.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

206 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In the early 1900s, a Chicago laborer flees to the Texas Panhandle with his girlfriend and younger sister, posing as siblings for work on a wealthy farmer's wheat harvest. When the farmer falls for the girlfriend, the laborer urges her to marry him, expecting the ailing landowner to die soon. The deception unravels as feelings, jealousy, and a plague of locusts converge on the golden plains.

Released in 1978, Days of Heaven is a drama and romance film.

2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 206 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 212 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,231 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is Days of Heaven (1978) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 206
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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