Is Primal Fear actually good?

Primal Fear sits in the 84.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 84.3% of them.

How does Primal Fear compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Primal Fear lands in the 85.4% 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 Primal Fear's score based on?

350 calibrated reviewers stand behind Primal Fear's score.

1996

global pct

84.3

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

Primal Fear

Name: Primal Fear
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1996

Scored from 350 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

84.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

85.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

97.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

350 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A high-profile Chicago defense attorney takes on the seemingly hopeless case of a soft-spoken altar boy accused of brutally murdering a beloved archbishop. As he digs into the young man's background, he uncovers disturbing secrets within the Church and questions whether his client is truly the innocent he appears to be.

Primal Fear (1996) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and mystery genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. 350 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 368 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.