Is Gandhi actually good?

Gandhi sits in the 92.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 92.3% of them.

How does Gandhi compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Gandhi lands in the 92.2% 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 Gandhi's score based on?

251 calibrated reviewers stand behind Gandhi's score.

1982

global pct

92.3

Film · 1982 · Films · 1980s

Gandhi

Name: Gandhi
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: 1982

Scored from 251 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

92.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

92.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

99.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

251 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A sweeping biographical epic tracing the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi from his early days as a lawyer in South Africa, where he first confronts racial injustice, through his decades-long nonviolent campaign to free India from British colonial rule. The film follows his philosophy of satyagraha, the Salt March, imprisonments, and the fraught path toward independence and partition.

Gandhi (1982) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and history genres.

251 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 261 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.