Is Only the Brave actually good?

Only the Brave sits in the 89.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 89.1% of them.

How does Only the Brave compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Only the Brave lands in the 92.3% 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 Only the Brave's score based on?

224 calibrated reviewers stand behind Only the Brave's score.

2017

global pct

89.1

Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s

Only the Brave

Name: Only the Brave
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Released: 2017

Scored from 224 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

89.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

92.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

98.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

224 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite team of Arizona firefighters led by Eric Marsh who battle to earn certification as a Hotshot crew. As newcomer Brendan McDonough seeks redemption by joining the team, the men confront the dangers of wildland firefighting and face the catastrophic 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire.

Only the Brave is a 2017 action, biography and drama film.

224 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 232 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 397 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is Only the Brave (2017) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 224
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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