Is Papillon actually good?

Papillon sits in the 59.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 59.3% of them.

How does Papillon compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Papillon lands in the 66.2% 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?

319 calibrated reviewers stand behind Papillon's score.

2017

global pct

59.3

Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s

Papillon

Name: Papillon
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime
Released: 2017

Scored from 319 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

59.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

66.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

78.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

319 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A safecracker framed for murder is sentenced to life in the brutal French penal colony of French Guiana, where he forms an unlikely friendship with a wealthy convicted forger. Together they endure harsh conditions, solitary confinement, and repeated escape attempts as the safecracker refuses to abandon his dream of freedom. A remake of the 1973 film based on Henri Charriere's memoir.

Papillon (2017) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, biography and crime genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. 319 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 329 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Papillon (2017) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 319
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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