Is Muriel's Wedding actually good?

Muriel's Wedding sits in the 81.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 81.9% of them.

How does Muriel's Wedding compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Muriel's Wedding lands in the 82.5% 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 Muriel's Wedding's score based on?

147 calibrated reviewers stand behind Muriel's Wedding's score.

1994

global pct

81.9

Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s

Muriel's Wedding

Name: Muriel's Wedding
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1994

Scored from 147 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

81.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

82.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

95.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

147 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Muriel Heslop is an awkward, ABBA-obsessed young woman from the fictional Australian town of Porpoise Spit who feels stifled by her cruel friends and dysfunctional family. After stealing money from her father, she escapes to Sydney, reconnects with free-spirited Rhonda, and chases her dream of a glamorous wedding, only to learn that reinventing herself requires more than a new name and a white dress.

Muriel's Wedding (1994) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and drama genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 147 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 155 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Muriel's Wedding (1994) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 147
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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