Is Fish Tank actually good?

Fish Tank sits in the 65.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 65.4% of them.

How does Fish Tank compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Fish Tank lands in the 70.6% 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 Fish Tank's score based on?

124 calibrated reviewers stand behind Fish Tank's score.

2009

global pct

65.4

Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s

Fish Tank

Name: Fish Tank
Genre: Drama
Released: 2009

Scored from 124 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

65.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

70.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

83.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

124 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Mia, a volatile 15-year-old living on an Essex council estate with her neglectful mother and younger sister, dreams of escaping through dance. When her mother brings home a charming new boyfriend, Connor, he takes an unexpected interest in Mia's life, blurring boundaries and setting off a painful coming-of-age reckoning.

Released in 2009, Fish Tank is a drama film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,238 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 124 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 126 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Fish Tank (2009) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 124
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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