Is Inherit the Wind actually good?

Inherit the Wind sits in the 88.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 88.9% of them.

How does Inherit the Wind compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, Inherit the Wind lands in the 85.1% 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 Inherit the Wind's score based on?

202 calibrated reviewers stand behind Inherit the Wind's score.

1960

global pct

88.9

Film · 1960 · Films · 1960s

Inherit the Wind

Name: Inherit the Wind
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: 1960

Scored from 202 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

88.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

85.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

98.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

202 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A small-town Tennessee schoolteacher is put on trial for violating a state law against teaching evolution. Two of the country's most famous attorneys descend on the town to argue the case, turning a local prosecution into a national spectacle pitting scientific inquiry against literal interpretation of scripture. Dramatized from the real 1925 Scopes 'Monkey Trial.'

Inherit the Wind (1960) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and history genres.

The calibrated figure is built from 202 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 206 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 602 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is Inherit the Wind (1960) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 202
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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