Is Ed Wood actually good?

Ed Wood sits in the 93.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 93.6% of them.

How does Ed Wood compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Ed Wood lands in the 95.5% 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 Ed Wood's score based on?

397 calibrated reviewers stand behind Ed Wood's score.

1994

global pct

93.6

Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s

Ed Wood

Name: Ed Wood
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Released: 1994

Scored from 397 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

93.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

95.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

99.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

397 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Tim Burton's affectionate biopic follows Edward D. Wood Jr., the eternally optimistic cross-dressing filmmaker often dubbed the worst director of all time, as he hustles his way through 1950s Hollywood making schlock pictures like Glen or Glenda and Plan 9 from Outer Space. Along the way he forms an unlikely friendship with the aging, morphine-addicted horror icon Bela Lugosi, whose final days give the film its melancholy heart.

Ed Wood (1994) is a film IMDb files under the biography, comedy and drama genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 5,624 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 397 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 411 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.