Is Philadelphia actually good?

Philadelphia sits in the 81.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 81.1% of them.

How does Philadelphia compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Philadelphia lands in the 81.6% 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 Philadelphia's score based on?

261 calibrated reviewers stand behind Philadelphia's score.

1993

global pct

81.1

Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s

Philadelphia

Name: Philadelphia
Genre: Drama
Released: 1993

Scored from 261 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

81.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

81.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

96.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

261 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A talented attorney at a prestigious Philadelphia law firm is fired after his bosses discover he has AIDS. Believing the dismissal was discrimination disguised as performance issues, he hires a small-time personal injury lawyer - one initially uncomfortable with his client's illness and sexuality - to sue the firm in a landmark courtroom battle over prejudice and dignity.

Philadelphia is a 1993 drama film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. 261 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 271 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 4,392 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.