Is Paris Is Burning actually good?

Paris Is Burning sits in the 94.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 94.8% of them.

How does Paris Is Burning compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Paris Is Burning lands in the 96.5% 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 Paris Is Burning's score based on?

37 calibrated reviewers stand behind Paris Is Burning's score.

1990

global pct

94.8

Film · 1990 · Films · 1990s

Paris Is Burning

Name: Paris Is Burning
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1990

Scored from 37 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

94.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

96.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

95.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

37 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1990, Paris Is Burning is a documentary film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 194 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 37 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 41 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is Paris Is Burning (1990) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 37
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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