Is Paris, Texas actually good?

Paris, Texas sits in the 80.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 80.7% of them.

How does Paris, Texas compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Paris, Texas lands in the 78.8% 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, Texas's score based on?

304 calibrated reviewers stand behind Paris, Texas's score.

1984

global pct

80.7

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

Paris, Texas

Name: Paris, Texas
Genre: Drama
Released: 1984

Scored from 304 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

80.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

78.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

96.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

304 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A disheveled, mute man wanders out of the Texas desert after years of disappearance and is reunited with his brother, who has been raising his young son. As he slowly reconnects with the boy, the two set out to find the child's missing mother, forcing him to confront the wreckage of his past.

Released in 1984, Paris, Texas is a drama film.

304 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 317 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,091 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.