Is Perfect Blue actually good?

Perfect Blue sits in the 90.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 90.4% of them.

How does Perfect Blue compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Perfect Blue lands in the 92.6% 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 Perfect Blue's score based on?

270 calibrated reviewers stand behind Perfect Blue's score.

1997

global pct

90.4

Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s

Perfect Blue

Name: Perfect Blue
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama
Released: 1997

Scored from 270 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

90.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

92.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

99.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

270 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A young Japanese pop idol leaves her singing group to pursue an acting career, a transition that alienates her devoted fans and pushes her into increasingly disturbing roles. As a stalker fixates on her and people connected to her career are violently attacked, she struggles to distinguish reality from hallucination and her former pop-star persona from who she is becoming.

Perfect Blue (1997) is a film IMDb files under the animation, crime and drama genres.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,119 of whom clear the calibration test. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 270 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 274 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.