Is Flatliners actually good?

Flatliners sits in the 39.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 39.1% of them.

How does Flatliners compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Flatliners lands in the 36.5% 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 Flatliners's score based on?

160 calibrated reviewers stand behind Flatliners's score.

1990

global pct

39.1

Film · 1990 · Films · 1990s

Flatliners

Name: Flatliners
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Released: 1990

Scored from 160 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

39.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

36.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

24.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

160 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A group of ambitious medical students conduct a dangerous experiment, taking turns stopping their own hearts for brief periods to glimpse what lies beyond death before being revived. As they push the limits further, each survivor finds that their near-death experiences have followed them back, manifesting as haunting consequences from their pasts.

Flatliners is a 1990 drama, horror and science-fiction film.

160 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 163 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,442 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus.