Is Deliverance actually good?

Deliverance sits in the 88.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 88.5% of them.

How does Deliverance compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Deliverance lands in the 85.9% 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 Deliverance's score based on?

379 calibrated reviewers stand behind Deliverance's score.

1972

global pct

88.5

Film · 1972 · Films · 1970s

Deliverance

Name: Deliverance
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1972

Scored from 379 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

88.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

85.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

98.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

379 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Four Atlanta businessmen take a canoe trip down a remote Georgia river that is about to be dammed, seeking a weekend of wilderness adventure before the valley is flooded. What begins as a male-bonding escape turns into a harrowing fight for survival after a brutal encounter with local mountain men forces the group to confront violence, moral compromise, and the unforgiving wilderness.

Deliverance is a 1972 adventure, drama and thriller film.

379 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 388 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,705 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.