Is Reds actually good?

Reds sits in the 61.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 61.8% of them.

How does Reds compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Reds lands in the 58.9% 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 Reds's score based on?

135 calibrated reviewers stand behind Reds's score.

1981

global pct

61.8

Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s

Reds

Name: Reds
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: 1981

Scored from 135 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

61.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

58.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

79.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

135 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An epic biographical drama about American journalist John Reed, who chronicled the 1917 Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days That Shook the World. The film traces his turbulent romance with writer Louise Bryant, his friendship with playwright Eugene O'Neill, and his efforts to build an American communist movement, interwoven with interviews of real-life witnesses who knew him.

Reds (1981) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and history genres.

135 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 136 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 568 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.