Is Matilda actually good?

Matilda sits in the 80.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 80.3% of them.

How does Matilda compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Matilda lands in the 80.7% 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 Matilda's score based on?

201 calibrated reviewers stand behind Matilda's score.

1996

global pct

80.3

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

Matilda

Name: Matilda
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Released: 1996

Scored from 201 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

80.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

80.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

95.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

201 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A precociously brilliant young girl, neglected by her crude, dishonest parents, finds refuge in books and discovers she has telekinetic powers. At her cruel new school, ruled by the tyrannical Miss Trunchbull, Matilda bonds with her kind teacher Miss Honey and uses her gifts to stand up to the adults who torment them.

Matilda (1996) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, family and fantasy genres. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 3 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 201 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 211 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.