Is Germinal actually good?

Germinal sits in the 90.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 90.1% of them.

How does Germinal compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Germinal lands in the 92.4% 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 Germinal's score based on?

22 calibrated reviewers stand behind Germinal's score.

1993

global pct

90.1

Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s

Germinal

Name: Germinal
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1993

Scored from 22 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

90.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

92.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

87.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

22 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Germinal (1993) is a film IMDb files under the drama and romance genres.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 30 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 22 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 22 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.