Is Pontypool actually good?

Pontypool sits in the 60.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 60.5% of them.

How does Pontypool compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Pontypool lands in the 65.9% 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 Pontypool's score based on?

206 calibrated reviewers stand behind Pontypool's score.

2008

global pct

60.5

Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s

Pontypool

Name: Pontypool
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Released: 2008

Scored from 206 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

60.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

65.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

79.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

206 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A jaded radio shock jock arrives at his small-town station in Pontypool, Ontario for an ordinary morning broadcast, only to begin fielding bizarre call-in reports of violent mobs forming around the area. As he and his producer try to make sense of the chaos from inside the studio, they realize the outbreak is spreading through an unexpected vector tied to language itself.

Pontypool is a 2008 horror and science-fiction film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,016 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 206 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 211 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is Pontypool (2008) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 206
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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