Is Rumble Fish actually good?

Rumble Fish sits in the 62.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 62.7% of them.

How does Rumble Fish compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Rumble Fish lands in the 59.9% 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 Rumble Fish's score based on?

136 calibrated reviewers stand behind Rumble Fish's score.

1983

global pct

62.7

Film · 1983 · Films · 1980s

Rumble Fish

Name: Rumble Fish
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Released: 1983

Scored from 136 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

62.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

59.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

80.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

136 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In a decaying Tulsa-like town, Rusty James, a small-time teen gang leader, struggles to live up to the legend of his older brother, the enigmatic Motorcycle Boy, who has returned from California. As Rusty James navigates street fights, a fading girlfriend, and an alcoholic father, he idolizes his brother while failing to grasp the disillusionment that has hollowed him out.

Released in 1983, Rumble Fish is a crime, drama and romance film.

136 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 142 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 759 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.