Is How the West Was Won actually good?

How the West Was Won sits in the 63.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 63.4% of them.

How does How the West Was Won compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, How the West Was Won lands in the 54.6% 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 How the West Was Won's score based on?

180 calibrated reviewers stand behind How the West Was Won's score.

1962

global pct

63.4

Film · 1962 · Films · 1960s

How the West Was Won

Name: How the West Was Won
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Released: 1962

Scored from 180 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

63.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

54.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

83.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

180 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An epic Western spanning multiple generations of the Prescott family as they journey westward across 19th-century America. The sprawling saga follows their experiences through key chapters of frontier expansion, including river travel, the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad, and the lawless outlaw era.

Released in 1962, How the West Was Won is an action, adventure and war film.

180 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 184 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 356 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is How the West Was Won (1962) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 180
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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