Is Firestarter actually good?

Firestarter sits in the 38.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 38.2% of them.

How does Firestarter compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Firestarter lands in the 35.6% 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 Firestarter's score based on?

131 calibrated reviewers stand behind Firestarter's score.

1984

global pct

38.2

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

Firestarter

Name: Firestarter
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Released: 1984

Scored from 131 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

38.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

35.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

24.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

131 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After a college experiment exposes her parents to an experimental drug, young Charlie McGee is born with pyrokinetic powers that grow more dangerous as she ages. When a shadowy government agency hunts the family to weaponize her abilities, Charlie and her father go on the run, forced to confront the agents pursuing them.

Firestarter is a 1984 action, horror and science-fiction film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 863 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 131 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 133 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.