Is Radio Days actually good?

Radio Days sits in the 92.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 92.7% of them.

How does Radio Days compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Radio Days lands in the 92.6% 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 Radio Days's score based on?

120 calibrated reviewers stand behind Radio Days's score.

1987

global pct

92.7

Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s

Radio Days

Name: Radio Days
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1987

Scored from 120 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

92.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

92.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

98.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

120 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A nostalgic, episodic comedy narrated by an adult looking back on his working-class Jewish family in 1940s Rockaway Beach, where the radio shapes daily life. The film weaves the boy's family memories together with parallel vignettes about the glamorous lives of the radio stars they listen to, evoking an era when broadcasting was the heart of American popular culture.

Radio Days is a 1987 comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 502 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 120 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 120 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.