Is Easy Rider actually good?

Easy Rider sits in the 41.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 41.7% of them.

How does Easy Rider compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, Easy Rider lands in the 31.6% 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 Easy Rider's score based on?

371 calibrated reviewers stand behind Easy Rider's score.

1969

global pct

41.7

Film · 1969 · Films · 1960s

Easy Rider

Name: Easy Rider
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Released: 1969

Scored from 371 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

41.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

31.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

26.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

371 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Two countercultural bikers, Wyatt and Billy, score a big drug deal in Los Angeles and set off across the American Southwest on their motorcycles, bound for Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Along the way they pick up an alcoholic ACLU lawyer and encounter both the freedom of the open road and the hostility of small-town America.

Released in 1969, Easy Rider is an adventure and drama film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,781 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 371 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 377 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them.

Is Easy Rider (1969) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 371
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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