Is Empire Records actually good?

Empire Records sits in the 44.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 44.7% of them.

How does Empire Records compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Empire Records lands in the 42.1% 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 Empire Records's score based on?

173 calibrated reviewers stand behind Empire Records's score.

1995

global pct

44.7

Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s

Empire Records

Name: Empire Records
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Released: 1995

Scored from 173 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

44.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

42.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

35.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

173 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Over the course of a single chaotic day, the young employees of an independent record store band together to stop their beloved shop from being sold out to a soulless chain. Between customer mishaps, a shoplifting incident, and a visit from a washed-up pop star, the misfit staff confront their personal crises and fight to save Empire Records.

Empire Records (1995) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and music genres. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 6,159 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 173 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 188 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is Empire Records (1995) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 173
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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