Is Great Balls of Fire! actually good?

Great Balls of Fire! sits in the 41.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 41.5% of them.

How does Great Balls of Fire! compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Great Balls of Fire! lands in the 39.0% 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 Great Balls of Fire!'s score based on?

61 calibrated reviewers stand behind Great Balls of Fire!'s score.

1989

global pct

41.5

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

Great Balls of Fire!

Name: Great Balls of Fire!
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Released: 1989

Scored from 61 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

41.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

39.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

33.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

61 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1989, Great Balls of Fire! is a biography, drama and music film.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 450 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 61 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 64 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.

Is Great Balls of Fire! (1989) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 61
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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