Is Good Bye Lenin! actually good?

Good Bye Lenin! sits in the 86.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 86.5% of them.

How does Good Bye Lenin! compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Good Bye Lenin! lands in the 91.2% 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 Good Bye Lenin!'s score based on?

184 calibrated reviewers stand behind Good Bye Lenin!'s score.

2003

global pct

86.5

Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s

Good Bye Lenin!

Name: Good Bye Lenin!
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 2003

Scored from 184 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

86.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

91.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

97.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

184 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In East Berlin around the fall of the Wall, a devoted young son discovers that the shock of seeing a reunified Germany could kill his mother, a committed socialist who awakens from a coma months after the GDR has collapsed. To protect her fragile heart, he goes to elaborate lengths to recreate the vanished East German world inside her bedroom, staging fake newscasts and hunting down discontinued products.

Good Bye Lenin! (2003) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and romance genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 184 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 190 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,645 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is Good Bye Lenin! (2003) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 184
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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