Is First Man actually good?

First Man sits in the 48.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 48.5% of them.

How does First Man compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, First Man lands in the 55.3% 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 First Man's score based on?

1,125 calibrated reviewers stand behind First Man's score.

2018

global pct

48.5

Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s

First Man

Name: First Man
Genre: Drama, Biography, History
Released: 2018
Duration: 2 h 21 min
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Kyle Chandler, Jason Clarke, Corey Stoll

Scored from 1,125 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

48.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

55.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

44.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

1,125 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A biographical drama chronicling Neil Armstrong's path to becoming the first person to walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, exploring both the technological challenges of the space race and Armstrong's personal struggles throughout his NASA career.

First Man is a 2018 drama, biography and history film starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy and Kyle Chandler. It runs 2h 21m and carries a PG-13 certificate. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Damien Chazelle directed it.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,115 of whom clear the calibration test. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 1,125 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 1,163 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

DramaBiographyHistory

Is First Man (2018) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 1,125
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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