Is Paper Moon actually good?

Paper Moon sits in the 97.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 97.6% of them.

How does Paper Moon compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Paper Moon lands in the 97.7% 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 Paper Moon's score based on?

164 calibrated reviewers stand behind Paper Moon's score.

1973

global pct

97.6

Film · 1973 · Films · 1970s

Paper Moon

Name: Paper Moon
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Released: 1973

Scored from 164 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

97.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

97.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

99.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

164 calibrated reviewers

Summary

During the Depression, small-time con man Moses Pray reluctantly agrees to escort a sharp-tongued nine-year-old orphan, Addie, across the Midwest after her mother's funeral. As they travel together selling Bibles to recent widows and running other small swindles, Addie proves to be a natural grifter herself, and an unlikely bond forms between the mismatched pair.

Paper Moon is a 1973 comedy, crime and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

The calibrated figure is built from 164 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 168 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 733 of whom clear the calibration test.