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Once Upon a Time in America (1984) poster
1984
global pct
79.9

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

Once Upon a Time in America

Scored from 630 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

79.9%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
77.9%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
97.1%
AI-adjusted percentile
630 calibrated reviewers

Summary

The film follows David 'Noodles' Aaronson and his childhood friends through the Jewish neighborhoods of New York, from their youth in the 1920s through their rise in organized crime. The narrative alternates between past and present as Noodles navigates friendship, betrayal, and survival in the criminal underworld over several decades.

Sergio Leone directed Once Upon a Time in America, a crime, drama and thriller film from 1984. It was made in Italy. It is rated R. It stars Robert De Niro, James Woods and Elizabeth McGovern. The runtime is 229 minutes.

630 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 682 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 3,225 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

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Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers
630

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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