Is Midnight Express actually good?

Midnight Express sits in the 63.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 63.4% of them.

How does Midnight Express compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Midnight Express lands in the 54.4% 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 Midnight Express's score based on?

215 calibrated reviewers stand behind Midnight Express's score.

1978

global pct

63.4

Film · 1978 · Films · 1970s

Midnight Express

Name: Midnight Express
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Released: 1978

Scored from 215 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

63.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

54.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

83.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

215 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An American college student is caught smuggling hashish out of Turkey and sentenced to a brutal Istanbul prison. As his initial sentence is extended and conditions deteriorate, he must endure the violence, corruption, and despair of the prison while searching for any possible way to escape and return home.

Midnight Express is a 1978 biography, crime and drama film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,216 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 215 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 223 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Midnight Express (1978) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 215
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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