Is Hello, Dolly! actually good?

Hello, Dolly! sits in the 53.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 53.9% of them.

How does Hello, Dolly! compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, Hello, Dolly! lands in the 43.7% 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 Hello, Dolly!'s score based on?

124 calibrated reviewers stand behind Hello, Dolly!'s score.

1969

global pct

53.9

Film · 1969 · Films · 1960s

Hello, Dolly!

Name: Hello, Dolly!
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Released: 1969

Scored from 124 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

53.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

43.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

61.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

124 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1890s New York, widowed matchmaker Dolly Levi sets her sights on cantankerous half-millionaire Horace Vandergelder of Yonkers, ostensibly to pair him with a young milliner while quietly maneuvering to marry him herself. A trip to the city sends Vandergelder's clerks on a runaway adventure of their own, culminating in a glittering night at the Harmonia Gardens restaurant where Dolly makes her grand return to society.

Hello, Dolly! is a 1969 adventure, comedy and musical film. Inside comedy it is classed as Romcom.

1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 668 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 124 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 127 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Hello, Dolly! (1969) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 124
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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