Is Pink Flamingos actually good?

Pink Flamingos sits in the 24.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 24.7% of them.

How does Pink Flamingos compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Pink Flamingos lands in the 18.8% 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 Pink Flamingos's score based on?

181 calibrated reviewers stand behind Pink Flamingos's score.

1972

global pct

24.7

Film · 1972 · Films · 1970s

Pink Flamingos

Name: Pink Flamingos
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1972

Scored from 181 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

24.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

18.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

8.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

181 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Divine, living incognito as Babs Johnson with her eccentric family in a trailer outside Baltimore, holds the title of 'the filthiest person alive.' When the depraved Marble couple, Connie and Raymond, scheme to steal her crown, a gleefully grotesque feud erupts. John Waters' notorious midnight-movie provocation revels in trash aesthetics and shock comedy as the rivals try to out-disgust each other.

Released in 1972, Pink Flamingos is a comedy and crime film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,469 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 181 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 190 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is Pink Flamingos (1972) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 181
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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