Is Delicatessen actually good?

Delicatessen sits in the 87.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 87.2% of them.

How does Delicatessen compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Delicatessen lands in the 88.7% 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 Delicatessen's score based on?

167 calibrated reviewers stand behind Delicatessen's score.

1991

global pct

87.2

Film · 1991 · Films · 1990s

Delicatessen

Name: Delicatessen
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1991

Scored from 167 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

87.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

88.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

97.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

167 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In a post-apocalyptic France, a former clown takes a handyman job at a run-down apartment building whose landlord is a butcher with a gruesome way of supplying meat to his tenants. As the newcomer falls for the butcher's nearsighted daughter, she conspires with a band of underground vegetarian rebels to save him from becoming the next entree.

Delicatessen is a 1991 comedy and crime film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,659 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 167 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 174 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.