Is Firestarter actually good?

Firestarter sits in the 5.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 5.3% of them.

How does Firestarter compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2020s, Firestarter lands in the 7.2% 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?

406 calibrated reviewers stand behind Firestarter's score.

2022

global pct

5.3

Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s

Firestarter

Name: Firestarter
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Released: 2022

Scored from 406 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).

5.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

7.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles

0.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

406 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A young girl named Charlie possesses dangerous pyrokinetic abilities inherited from her parents, who were subjected to experiments by a shadowy government agency. As her powers grow more volatile, her father tries to keep her hidden and teach her control, but the agency hunts them down to weaponize her gift. This remake of the Stephen King novel features a score by John Carpenter.

Firestarter (2022) is a film IMDb files under the drama, horror and science-fiction genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 302 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 406 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 438 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.