Is Hoop Dreams actually good?

Hoop Dreams sits in the 96.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 96.7% of them.

How does Hoop Dreams compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Hoop Dreams lands in the 98.3% 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 Hoop Dreams's score based on?

71 calibrated reviewers stand behind Hoop Dreams's score.

1994

global pct

96.7

Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s

Hoop Dreams

Name: Hoop Dreams
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Sport
Released: 1994

Scored from 71 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

96.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

98.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

98.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

71 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1994, Hoop Dreams is a documentary, drama and sport film.

Only 71 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 73 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 785 of whom clear the calibration test.