Is My Neighbor Totoro actually good?

My Neighbor Totoro sits in the 89.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 89.5% of them.

How does My Neighbor Totoro compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, My Neighbor Totoro lands in the 89.3% 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 My Neighbor Totoro's score based on?

495 calibrated reviewers stand behind My Neighbor Totoro's score.

1988

global pct

89.5

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

My Neighbor Totoro

Name: My Neighbor Totoro
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Family
Released: 1988
Duration: 1 h 26 min
Cast: Noriko Sakai, Chie Ōsugi, Toshiyuki Nishida, Sumi Shimamoto

Scored from 495 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

89.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

89.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

99.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

495 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Two young sisters move to the countryside and discover a magical forest inhabited by friendly forest spirits called Totoros. As their mother recovers from illness in a hospital, the girls form an enchanting friendship with these gentle creatures and experience wonder in their new home.

My Neighbor Totoro is a 1988 animation, fantasy and family film. It is rated G. It stars Noriko Sakai, Chie Ōsugi and Toshiyuki Nishida. It was directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was made in Japan. The runtime is 86 minutes. Its listed language is Japanese.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 6,613 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. 495 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 521 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

AnimationFantasyFamily

Is My Neighbor Totoro (1988) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 495
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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