Is Doctor Zhivago actually good?

Doctor Zhivago sits in the 82.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 82.3% of them.

How does Doctor Zhivago compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, Doctor Zhivago lands in the 76.1% 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 Doctor Zhivago's score based on?

287 calibrated reviewers stand behind Doctor Zhivago's score.

1965

global pct

82.3

Film · 1965 · Films · 1960s

Doctor Zhivago

Name: Doctor Zhivago
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Released: 1965

Scored from 287 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

82.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

76.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

97.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

287 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Spanning the final years of Tsarist Russia through the Revolution and Civil War, this epic follows Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet torn between his devoted wife Tonya and his passionate love for Lara, a woman whose life keeps intersecting with his amid the upheaval. As war and politics tear the country apart, Yuri struggles to preserve his art, his humanity, and the loves that define him.

Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 drama, romance and war film.

287 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 294 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is Doctor Zhivago (1965) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 287
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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