Is Kingpin actually good?

Kingpin sits in the 67.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 67.9% of them.

How does Kingpin compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Kingpin lands in the 67.6% 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 Kingpin's score based on?

184 calibrated reviewers stand behind Kingpin's score.

1996

global pct

67.9

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

Kingpin

Name: Kingpin
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Released: 1996

Scored from 184 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

67.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

67.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

88.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

184 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A once-promising bowler whose career was destroyed after a hustling scheme gone wrong scrapes by years later as a washed-up salesman. He discovers a naive Amish kid with a natural talent for bowling and convinces him to enter a million-dollar tournament in Reno, with the bitter rival who ruined his career standing in their way.

Kingpin is a 1996 comedy and sport film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 184 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 190 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.