Is Monster actually good?

Monster sits in the 85.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.3% of them.

How does Monster compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2020s, Monster lands in the 89.0% 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 Monster's score based on?

123 calibrated reviewers stand behind Monster's score.

2023

global pct

85.3

Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s

Monster

Name: Monster
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 2023

Scored from 123 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).

85.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

89.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles

96.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

123 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A Japanese drama from director Hirokazu Kore-eda. When a mother notices troubling changes in her young son's behavior, she suspects his teacher is mistreating him and confronts the school. The story then retells the same events from multiple perspectives, gradually revealing a more complex truth about the boy and his classmate.

Released in 2023, Monster is a drama, mystery and thriller film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 55 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 7,929 other films from the 2020s 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 129 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.