Is Lolita actually good?

Lolita sits in the 72.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 72.8% of them.

How does Lolita compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, Lolita lands in the 64.7% 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 Lolita's score based on?

245 calibrated reviewers stand behind Lolita's score.

1962

global pct

72.8

Film · 1962 · Films · 1960s

Lolita

Name: Lolita
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Released: 1962

Scored from 245 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

72.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

64.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

92.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

245 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged European literature professor, becomes obsessed with Dolores 'Lolita' Haze, the teenage daughter of his American landlady. He marries the mother to stay close to the girl, and after circumstances leave him as Lolita's guardian, the two embark on a fraught cross-country journey shadowed by the mysterious, manipulative Clare Quilty.

Lolita is a 1962 crime, drama and romance film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 5 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 245 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 250 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is Lolita (1962) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 245
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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