Is Igby Goes Down actually good?

Igby Goes Down sits in the 43.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 43.3% of them.

How does Igby Goes Down compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Igby Goes Down lands in the 47.7% 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 Igby Goes Down's score based on?

143 calibrated reviewers stand behind Igby Goes Down's score.

2002

global pct

43.3

Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s

Igby Goes Down

Name: Igby Goes Down
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2002

Scored from 143 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

43.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

47.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

32.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

143 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A sardonic, rebellious teenager from a wealthy but dysfunctional East Coast family bounces between prep schools, his dying mother, his Republican brother, and his godfather's mistress in Manhattan as he tries to escape the gilded madness of his upbringing. Along the way he stumbles through love affairs and family secrets while charting his own way out.

Released in 2002, Igby Goes Down is a comedy and drama film. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

143 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 145 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,471 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is Igby Goes Down (2002) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 143
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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