Is Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence actually good?

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence sits in the 75.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 75.1% of them.

How does Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence lands in the 72.4% 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 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence's score based on?

90 calibrated reviewers stand behind Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence's score.

1983

global pct

75.1

Film · 1983 · Films · 1980s

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Name: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1983

Scored from 90 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

75.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

72.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

90.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

90 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) is a film IMDb files under the drama and war genres.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 309 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 90 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 95 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 90
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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