Is Hairspray actually good?

Hairspray sits in the 86.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 86.2% of them.

How does Hairspray compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Hairspray lands in the 84.5% 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 Hairspray's score based on?

75 calibrated reviewers stand behind Hairspray's score.

1988

global pct

86.2

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

Hairspray

Name: Hairspray
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Released: 1988

Scored from 75 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

86.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

84.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

95.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

75 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1988, Hairspray is a comedy, drama and family film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 3,410 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 75 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 76 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.