Is King Lear actually good?

King Lear sits in the 8.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 8.5% of them.

How does King Lear compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, King Lear lands in the 8.2% 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 King Lear's score based on?

17 calibrated reviewers stand behind King Lear's score.

1987

global pct

8.5

Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s

King Lear

Name: King Lear
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Released: 1987

Scored from 17 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

8.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

8.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

15.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

17 calibrated reviewers

Summary

King Lear (1987) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and science-fiction genres.

Only 17 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 19 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.