Is Death Wish actually good?

Death Wish sits in the 85.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.9% of them.

How does Death Wish compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Death Wish lands in the 82.2% 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 Death Wish's score based on?

237 calibrated reviewers stand behind Death Wish's score.

1974

global pct

85.9

Film · 1974 · Films · 1970s

Death Wish

Name: Death Wish
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Released: 1974

Scored from 237 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

85.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

82.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

97.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

237 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After his wife is murdered and his daughter brutally assaulted by street thugs in New York City, mild-mannered architect Paul Kersey transforms into a one-man vigilante, prowling the city at night and gunning down muggers. As the body count rises, the police quietly track him while the public hails the anonymous killer as a folk hero.

Death Wish (1974) is a film IMDb files under the action, crime and drama genres.

2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 237 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 238 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.