Is Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom actually good?

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom sits in the 19.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 19.3% of them.

How does Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom lands in the 14.2% 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 Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom's score based on?

354 calibrated reviewers stand behind Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom's score.

1975

global pct

19.3

Film · 1975 · Films · 1970s

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Name: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Genre: Drama
Released: 1975

Scored from 354 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

19.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

14.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

4.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

354 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In the final days of Mussolini's puppet republic in northern Italy, four wealthy fascist libertines abduct eighteen teenage boys and girls and imprison them in a remote villa. Over a structured series of escalating depravities narrated by aging prostitutes, the captors subject their victims to systematic humiliation, torture, and violence as an allegory of absolute power.

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) is a film IMDb files under the drama genre.

354 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 360 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 354
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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