Is Instinct actually good?

Instinct sits in the 44.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 44.2% of them.

How does Instinct compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Instinct lands in the 41.6% 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 Instinct's score based on?

152 calibrated reviewers stand behind Instinct's score.

1999

global pct

44.2

Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s

Instinct

Name: Instinct
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1999

Scored from 152 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

44.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

41.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

34.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

152 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An ambitious psychiatrist attempts to evaluate a renowned anthropologist who lived among mountain gorillas in Africa for years before violently killing several people and being returned to the United States in chains. As the doctor probes the silent prisoner's mind, the sessions upend his assumptions about civilization, freedom, and what it means to be human.

Instinct (1999) is a film IMDb files under the drama and thriller 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 152 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 158 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.