Is Naked Lunch actually good?

Naked Lunch sits in the 52.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 52.1% of them.

How does Naked Lunch compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Naked Lunch lands in the 50.3% 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 Naked Lunch's score based on?

157 calibrated reviewers stand behind Naked Lunch's score.

1991

global pct

52.1

Film · 1991 · Films · 1990s

Naked Lunch

Name: Naked Lunch
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Released: 1991

Scored from 157 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

52.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

50.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

57.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

157 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Bill Lee, an exterminator in 1950s New York, becomes addicted to his own bug powder and slips into a hallucinatory state in which he believes he is an undercover agent reporting to talking typewriters. After the accidental shooting of his wife, he flees to the surreal port of Interzone, where drugs, paranoia, and writing blur together as he composes a strange manuscript.

Naked Lunch (1991) is a film IMDb files under the drama and mystery genres.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,707 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 157 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 161 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.