Is Escape from Alcatraz actually good?

Escape from Alcatraz sits in the 85.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.9% of them.

How does Escape from Alcatraz compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Escape from Alcatraz lands in the 82.4% 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 Escape from Alcatraz's score based on?

210 calibrated reviewers stand behind Escape from Alcatraz's score.

1979

global pct

85.9

Film · 1979 · Films · 1970s

Escape from Alcatraz

Name: Escape from Alcatraz
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Released: 1979

Scored from 210 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

85.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

82.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

97.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

210 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Based on a true story, bank robber Frank Morris is transferred to the maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island, considered inescapable. Enduring the harsh regime of the warden and the brutal realities of life behind bars, Morris befriends fellow inmates and begins meticulously planning an audacious breakout from the island fortress.

Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 biography, crime and drama film.

210 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 212 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,502 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is Escape from Alcatraz (1979) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 210
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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