Is Dr. No actually good?

Dr. No sits in the 70.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 70.4% of them.

How does Dr. No compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, Dr. No lands in the 61.7% 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 Dr. No's score based on?

521 calibrated reviewers stand behind Dr. No's score.

1962

global pct

70.4

Film · 1962 · Films · 1960s

Dr. No

Name: Dr. No
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Released: 1962
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Cast: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee

Scored from 521 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

70.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

61.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

92.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

521 calibrated reviewers

Summary

British secret agent James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent, a mystery that leads him to the mysterious Dr. Julius No and his secret island lair. Bond uncovers Dr. No's plot to disrupt international space operations.

Released in 1962, Dr. No is an action, adventure and thriller film. Terence Young directed it, with Sean Connery, Ursula Andress and Joseph Wiseman in the cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. It runs 1h 50m.

The calibrated figure is built from 521 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 531 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,466 of whom clear the calibration test.

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Is Dr. No (1962) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 521
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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