Is Hard Eight actually good?

Hard Eight sits in the 71.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 71.1% of them.

How does Hard Eight compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Hard Eight lands in the 70.8% 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 Eight's score based on?

146 calibrated reviewers stand behind Hard Eight's score.

1996

global pct

71.1

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

Hard Eight

Name: Hard Eight
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1996

Scored from 146 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

71.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

70.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

89.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

146 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An aging, world-weary gambler named Sydney takes a destitute young man under his wing in Reno, teaching him how to make a living working the casinos. Their quiet mentorship is complicated when the protege falls for a cocktail waitress and a brash acquaintance threatens to expose secrets from Sydney's past.

Hard Eight (1996) is a film IMDb files under the crime and drama genres.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 836 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 146 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 149 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus.