Is Oldboy actually good?

Oldboy sits in the 85.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.6% of them.

How does Oldboy compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Oldboy lands in the 90.3% 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 Oldboy's score based on?

990 calibrated reviewers stand behind Oldboy's score.

2003

global pct

85.6

Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s

Oldboy

Name: Oldboy
Genre: Action, Thriller, Mystery
Released: 2003
Duration: 2 h
Cast: Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jung

Scored from 990 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

85.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

90.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

98.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

990 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Oh Dae-su, a man imprisoned in a mysterious locked room for 15 years, is suddenly released without explanation. He has only 5 days to discover why he was kidnapped and who his captor is, setting him on a path of vengeance and mystery.

Oldboy is a 2003 action, thriller and mystery film starring Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae and Kang Hye-jung. Park Chan-wook directed it. It was made in South Korea, in Korean. It runs 2h.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 990 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 1,090 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 10,209 of whom clear the calibration test.

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Is Oldboy (2003) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 990
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

What else scores like Oldboy?

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