Is Jawbreaker actually good?

Jawbreaker sits in the 18.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 18.8% of them.

How does Jawbreaker compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Jawbreaker lands in the 17.2% 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 Jawbreaker's score based on?

118 calibrated reviewers stand behind Jawbreaker's score.

1999

global pct

18.8

Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s

Jawbreaker

Name: Jawbreaker
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Released: 1999

Scored from 118 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

18.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

17.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

6.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

118 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A clique of popular high school girls accidentally kills their friend with a jawbreaker during a birthday prank gone wrong. The ringleader orchestrates an elaborate cover-up, but an unpopular classmate stumbles onto the truth and is offered a glamorous makeover in exchange for her silence.

Jawbreaker is a 1999 comedy, crime and thriller film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 118 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 122 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,452 of whom clear the calibration test.