Is Menace II Society actually good?

Menace II Society sits in the 83.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 83.6% of them.

How does Menace II Society compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Menace II Society lands in the 84.6% 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 Menace II Society's score based on?

123 calibrated reviewers stand behind Menace II Society's score.

1993

global pct

83.6

Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s

Menace II Society

Name: Menace II Society
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1993

Scored from 123 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

83.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

84.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

95.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

123 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In the violent housing projects of Watts, Los Angeles, a young man named Caine navigates life after high school amid drugs, crime, and gang violence. As he weighs an opportunity to leave for Atlanta with a friend's girlfriend, the consequences of a convenience-store killing he witnessed early on continue to close in around him.

Menace II Society is a 1993 crime, drama and thriller film.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 123 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 128 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,547 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is Menace II Society (1993) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 123
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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