Is Papillon actually good?

Papillon sits in the 91.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 91.2% of them.

How does Papillon compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Papillon lands in the 89.4% 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 Papillon's score based on?

197 calibrated reviewers stand behind Papillon's score.

1973

global pct

91.2

Film · 1973 · Films · 1970s

Papillon

Name: Papillon
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Released: 1973

Scored from 197 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

91.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

89.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

98.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

197 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Wrongly convicted of murder, safecracker Henri 'Papillon' Charriere is sentenced to life in the brutal French penal colony of French Guiana. He forms an unlikely friendship with timid counterfeiter Louis Dega, who funds escape attempts in exchange for protection. Across years of failed breakouts, solitary confinement, and punishing conditions, Papillon refuses to surrender his will to be free.

Papillon (1973) is a film IMDb files under the biography, crime and drama genres.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,569 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 197 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 211 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus.