Is Funny Games actually good?

Funny Games sits in the 50.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 50.9% of them.

How does Funny Games compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Funny Games lands in the 49.1% 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 Funny Games's score based on?

322 calibrated reviewers stand behind Funny Games's score.

1997

global pct

50.9

Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s

Funny Games

Name: Funny Games
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Released: 1997

Scored from 322 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

50.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

49.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

54.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

322 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An Austrian family arrives at their lakeside vacation home only to be taken hostage by two polite young men who subject them to a series of sadistic games. Michael Haneke's confrontational thriller breaks the fourth wall to indict the audience's appetite for screen violence.

Funny Games (1997) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and horror genres.

The calibrated figure is built from 322 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 333 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.