Is Pawn Sacrifice actually good?

Pawn Sacrifice sits in the 70.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 70.5% of them.

How does Pawn Sacrifice compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Pawn Sacrifice lands in the 76.7% 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 Pawn Sacrifice's score based on?

141 calibrated reviewers stand behind Pawn Sacrifice's score.

2014

global pct

70.5

Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s

Pawn Sacrifice

Name: Pawn Sacrifice
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: 2014

Scored from 141 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

70.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

76.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

89.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

141 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A biographical drama chronicling American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer's turbulent rise and his Cold War-era 1972 World Championship match against Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky in Reykjavik. As Fischer battles Spassky over the board, he also wrestles with mounting paranoia and mental instability that threaten to derail the historic showdown.

Released in 2014, Pawn Sacrifice is a biography, drama and history film.

141 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 143 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 313 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.

Is Pawn Sacrifice (2014) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 141
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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