Is Oliver! actually good?

Oliver! sits in the 87.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 87.1% of them.

How does Oliver! compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, Oliver! 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 Oliver!'s score based on?

166 calibrated reviewers stand behind Oliver!'s score.

1968

global pct

87.1

Film · 1968 · Films · 1960s

Oliver!

Name: Oliver!
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Released: 1968

Scored from 166 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

87.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

82.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

97.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

166 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A musical adaptation of Dickens's Oliver Twist. After fleeing a brutal workhouse and a cruel undertaker, young orphan Oliver lands in Victorian London, where he is taken in by Fagin's gang of pickpockets and befriended by the Artful Dodger. Caught between the kindly Mr. Brownlow, the doomed Nancy, and the menacing Bill Sikes, Oliver must find his way to a real home.

Released in 1968, Oliver! is a drama, family and musical film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,268 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 166 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 177 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Oliver! (1968) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 166
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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