Is Rocky actually good?

Rocky sits in the 95.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 95.7% of them.

How does Rocky compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Rocky lands in the 95.1% 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 Rocky's score based on?

646 calibrated reviewers stand behind Rocky's score.

1976

global pct

95.7

Film · 1976 · Films · 1970s

Rocky

Name: Rocky
Genre: Drama, Sport
Released: 1976
Duration: 2 h
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers, Burt Young

Scored from 646 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

95.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

95.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

99.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

646 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Rocky Balboa, a small-time Philadelphia boxer, is given an unlikely shot at the heavyweight championship when Apollo Creed offers an unknown fighter the opportunity to fight him. With the help of his trainer Mickey and his girlfriend Adrian, Rocky trains intensely for the bout, seeking to prove himself as more than just another club fighter.

Rocky is a 1976 drama and sport film. It stars Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire and Burgess Meredith. It was directed by John G. Avildsen. It is rated PG. It was made in the United States. The runtime is 120 minutes.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus. 646 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 700 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

DramaSport

Is Rocky (1976) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 646
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

What else scores like Rocky?

Film · 1979 · n=1,517