Is Rio Bravo actually good?

Rio Bravo sits in the 90.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 90.7% of them.

How does Rio Bravo compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1950s, Rio Bravo lands in the 82.9% 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 Rio Bravo's score based on?

252 calibrated reviewers stand behind Rio Bravo's score.

1959

global pct

90.7

Film · 1959 · Films · 1950s

Rio Bravo

Name: Rio Bravo
Genre: Western
Released: 1959

Scored from 252 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).

90.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

82.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1950s · 561 titles

99.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

252 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A small-town Texas sheriff arrests the brother of a powerful local rancher for murder and must hold him in jail until a U.S. Marshal arrives. With only a drunken former deputy, a cocky young gunslinger, and a crippled old-timer to help, he faces a siege by the rancher's hired guns while a mysterious woman complicates matters.

Rio Bravo (1959) is a film IMDb files under the western genre.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1950s films — 561 of them. 252 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 255 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,094 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is Rio Bravo (1959) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1950s · 561 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 252
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1950s

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