Is Dirty Rotten Scoundrels actually good?

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels sits in the 86.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 86.3% of them.

How does Dirty Rotten Scoundrels compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels lands in the 84.6% 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 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels's score based on?

185 calibrated reviewers stand behind Dirty Rotten Scoundrels's score.

1988

global pct

86.3

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Name: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1988

Scored from 185 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

86.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

84.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

97.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

185 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Two con men working the French Riviera, a suave European veteran and a brash American upstart, clash over territory and agree to settle their rivalry with a wager: the first to swindle $50,000 from a visiting American heiress wins, and the loser must leave town.

Released in 1988, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a comedy and crime film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,617 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 185 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 189 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 185
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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