Is Persepolis actually good?

Persepolis sits in the 90.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 90.3% of them.

How does Persepolis compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Persepolis lands in the 94.0% 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 Persepolis's score based on?

175 calibrated reviewers stand behind Persepolis's score.

2007

global pct

90.3

Film · 2007 · Films · 2000s

Persepolis

Name: Persepolis
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Released: 2007

Scored from 175 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

90.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

94.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

98.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

175 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel, this animated film follows a precocious young girl growing up in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War. As repression tightens, her outspoken family sends her to Vienna as a teenager, where she struggles with alienation, identity, and heartbreak before returning to a changed Iran and ultimately deciding where she belongs.

Persepolis is a 2007 animation, biography and drama film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 6,604 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. 175 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 178 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.