Is Gremlins actually good?

Gremlins sits in the 83.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 83.6% of them.

How does Gremlins compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Gremlins lands in the 81.9% 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 Gremlins's score based on?

378 calibrated reviewers stand behind Gremlins's score.

1984

global pct

83.6

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

Gremlins

Name: Gremlins
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Released: 1984

Scored from 378 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

83.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

81.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

97.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

378 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A young man receives an unusual creature called a Mogwai as a Christmas gift, along with three strict rules for its care: keep it away from bright light, don't get it wet, and never feed it after midnight. When the rules are broken, the small town of Kingston Falls is overrun by a horde of mischievous, destructive gremlins on Christmas Eve.

Gremlins (1984) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, fantasy and horror genres. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 10 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 378 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 389 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.