Is Lolita actually good?

Lolita sits in the 70.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 70.2% of them.

How does Lolita compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Lolita lands in the 69.9% 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 Lolita's score based on?

171 calibrated reviewers stand behind Lolita's score.

1997

global pct

70.2

Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s

Lolita

Name: Lolita
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1997

Scored from 171 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

70.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

69.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

89.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

171 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A middle-aged literature professor, Humbert Humbert, becomes obsessed with twelve-year-old Dolores 'Lolita' Haze and marries her widowed mother to stay close to her. After the mother's sudden death, he takes Lolita on a long road trip across America, where their disturbing relationship spirals toward jealousy, manipulation, and ruin as a mysterious rival shadows their journey.

Released in 1997, Lolita is a drama and romance film.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 171 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 187 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.