Is Lightning Over Water actually good?

Lightning Over Water sits in the 12.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 12.2% of them.

How does Lightning Over Water compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Lightning Over Water lands in the 11.5% 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 Lightning Over Water's score based on?

11 calibrated reviewers stand behind Lightning Over Water's score.

1980

global pct

12.2

Film · 1980 · Films · 1980s

Lightning Over Water

Name: Lightning Over Water
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1980

Scored from 11 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

12.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

11.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

24.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

11 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1980, Lightning Over Water is a documentary film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 19 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 11 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 11 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.

Is Lightning Over Water (1980) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 11
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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