Is In the Name of the Father actually good?

In the Name of the Father sits in the 92.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 92.8% of them.

How does In the Name of the Father compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, In the Name of the Father lands in the 94.8% 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 In the Name of the Father's score based on?

175 calibrated reviewers stand behind In the Name of the Father's score.

1993

global pct

92.8

Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s

In the Name of the Father

Name: In the Name of the Father
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Released: 1993

Scored from 175 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

92.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

94.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

99.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

175 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Based on a true story, a young Irishman from Belfast is wrongfully arrested and coerced into confessing to an IRA pub bombing in 1970s England. Imprisoned alongside his father, who is also falsely implicated, he spends years fighting to clear their names with the help of a determined lawyer.

In the Name of the Father (1993) is a film IMDb files under the biography, crime and drama genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 175 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 179 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,586 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is In the Name of the Father (1993) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 175
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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