Is Free Willy actually good?

Free Willy sits in the 53.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 53.2% of them.

How does Free Willy compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Free Willy lands in the 51.6% 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 Free Willy's score based on?

90 calibrated reviewers stand behind Free Willy's score.

1993

global pct

53.2

Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s

Free Willy

Name: Free Willy
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Released: 1993

Scored from 90 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

53.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

51.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

58.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

90 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1993, Free Willy is an adventure, drama and family film.

Only 90 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 97 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus.