Is Heavenly Creatures actually good?

Heavenly Creatures sits in the 89.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 89.9% of them.

How does Heavenly Creatures compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Heavenly Creatures lands in the 92.0% 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 Heavenly Creatures's score based on?

208 calibrated reviewers stand behind Heavenly Creatures's score.

1994

global pct

89.9

Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s

Heavenly Creatures

Name: Heavenly Creatures
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Released: 1994

Scored from 208 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

89.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

92.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

98.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

208 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1950s Christchurch, New Zealand, two intensely imaginative teenage girls, Pauline and Juliet, forge an obsessive friendship and retreat into an elaborate fantasy world of their own creation. When their families move to separate them, the bond curdles into something darker, building toward a shocking real-life crime based on the infamous Parker-Hulme case.

Heavenly Creatures (1994) is a film IMDb files under the biography, crime and drama genres.

The calibrated figure is built from 208 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 219 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,752 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is Heavenly Creatures (1994) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 208
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

What else scores like Heavenly Creatures?

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