Is Nights of Cabiria actually good?

Nights of Cabiria sits in the 96.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 96.3% of them.

How does Nights of Cabiria compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1950s, Nights of Cabiria lands in the 94.3% 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 Nights of Cabiria's score based on?

133 calibrated reviewers stand behind Nights of Cabiria's score.

1957

global pct

96.3

Film · 1957 · Films · 1950s

Nights of Cabiria

Name: Nights of Cabiria
Genre: Drama
Released: 1957

Scored from 133 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).

96.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

94.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1950s · 561 titles

99.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

133 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Cabiria, a fiercely optimistic prostitute working the outskirts of Rome, refuses to let repeated betrayals crush her dream of finding real love and a better life. Through a string of encounters - including a movie star's whim, a religious pilgrimage, and a courtship that seems too good to be true - she keeps reaching for happiness despite the world's cruelty.

Nights of Cabiria (1957) is a film IMDb files under the drama genre.

560 other films from the 1950s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 575 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 133 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 140 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Nights of Cabiria (1957) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1950s · 561 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 133
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1950s

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