Is Empire of the Sun actually good?

Empire of the Sun sits in the 81.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 81.1% of them.

How does Empire of the Sun compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Empire of the Sun lands in the 79.0% 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 Empire of the Sun's score based on?

266 calibrated reviewers stand behind Empire of the Sun's score.

1987

global pct

81.1

Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s

Empire of the Sun

Name: Empire of the Sun
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1987

Scored from 266 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

81.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

79.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

96.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

266 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A privileged young British boy living in Shanghai is separated from his parents during the Japanese invasion at the start of World War II. Forced to survive on his own, he is eventually interned in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, where he adapts to harsh conditions and forms an uneasy bond with an American hustler while clinging to his fascination with aviation.

Released in 1987, Empire of the Sun is a drama and war film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,135 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 266 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 278 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Empire of the Sun (1987) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 266
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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