Is Hard Candy actually good?

Hard Candy sits in the 41.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 41.6% of them.

How does Hard Candy compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Hard Candy lands in the 45.9% 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 Hard Candy's score based on?

574 calibrated reviewers stand behind Hard Candy's score.

2005

global pct

41.6

Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s

Hard Candy

Name: Hard Candy
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Released: 2005
Duration: 1 h 44 min
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Elliot Page, Sandra Oh, Chloë Sevigny

Scored from 574 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

41.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

45.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

26.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

574 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A 14-year-old girl meets an adult photographer through an online chat and visits his home. What begins as a seduction scenario turns into a psychological thriller when the girl takes control, trapping the man in his own apartment with sinister intentions.

Hard Candy is a 2005 thriller, crime and drama film starring Patrick Wilson, Elliot Page and Sandra Oh. Its certificate is R. David Slade directed it. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 44m.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 9,680 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 574 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 596 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.

ThrillerCrimeDrama

Is Hard Candy (2005) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 574
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

What else scores like Hard Candy?

Film · 2004 · n=1,120