Is Paper Towns actually good?

Paper Towns sits in the 36.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 36.1% of them.

How does Paper Towns compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Paper Towns lands in the 42.3% 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 Paper Towns's score based on?

178 calibrated reviewers stand behind Paper Towns's score.

2015

global pct

36.1

Film · 2015 · Films · 2010s

Paper Towns

Name: Paper Towns
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Released: 2015

Scored from 178 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

36.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

42.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

20.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

178 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Quentin, a quiet high school senior, has long admired his mysterious neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman. After she pulls him into a wild night of revenge pranks and then vanishes, he becomes convinced she left him a trail of clues. Quentin and his friends embark on a road trip to find her, learning along the way that the people we idealize rarely match who they really are.

Paper Towns is a 2015 adventure, comedy and drama film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 686 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 178 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 180 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Paper Towns (2015) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 178
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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