Is Less Than Zero actually good?

Less Than Zero sits in the 39.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 39.5% of them.

How does Less Than Zero compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Less Than Zero lands in the 36.9% 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 Less Than Zero's score based on?

122 calibrated reviewers stand behind Less Than Zero's score.

1987

global pct

39.5

Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s

Less Than Zero

Name: Less Than Zero
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1987

Scored from 122 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

39.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

36.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

26.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

122 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A recent high school graduate returns home to Los Angeles for Christmas and finds his ex-girlfriend and his best friend caught in a downward spiral of drugs and debt. As he tries to pull his friend back from the brink, he confronts the hollow excess of their wealthy Beverly Hills world. Based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel.

Less Than Zero (1987) is a film IMDb files under the crime and drama genres.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 122 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 125 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 760 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is Less Than Zero (1987) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 122
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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