Is Friday actually good?

Friday sits in the 77.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 77.9% of them.

How does Friday compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Friday lands in the 77.9% 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 Friday's score based on?

163 calibrated reviewers stand behind Friday's score.

1995

global pct

77.9

Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s

Friday

Name: Friday
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1995

Scored from 163 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

77.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

77.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

94.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

163 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Craig, recently fired from his job, spends a Friday hanging out on the front porch of his South Central Los Angeles home with his weed-dealing best friend Smokey. Over the course of the day, the two contend with a colorful cast of neighborhood characters, a looming debt to a local drug dealer, and an escalating confrontation with the block's intimidating bully, Deebo.

Friday is a 1995 comedy and drama film. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

163 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 173 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 6,599 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.