Is Flight of the Navigator actually good?

Flight of the Navigator sits in the 65.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 65.7% of them.

How does Flight of the Navigator compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Flight of the Navigator lands in the 62.8% 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 Flight of the Navigator's score based on?

121 calibrated reviewers stand behind Flight of the Navigator's score.

1986

global pct

65.7

Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s

Flight of the Navigator

Name: Flight of the Navigator
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Released: 1986

Scored from 121 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

65.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

62.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

83.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

121 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1978, 12-year-old David Freeman falls into a ravine near his Florida home and wakes up to find that eight years have passed, though he hasn't aged a day. NASA discovers his memories are linked to a crashed alien spacecraft piloted by a quirky robotic intelligence called Max, and David must help the ship find its way home while figuring out how to return to his own time.

Flight of the Navigator (1986) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, comedy and family genres.

The calibrated figure is built from 121 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 126 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,411 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is Flight of the Navigator (1986) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 121
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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