Is Seconds actually good?

Seconds sits in the 89.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 89.2% of them.

How does Seconds compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, Seconds lands in the 85.4% 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 Seconds's score based on?

152 calibrated reviewers stand behind Seconds's score.

1966

global pct

89.2

Film · 1966 · Films · 1960s

Seconds

Name: Seconds
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: 1966

Scored from 152 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

89.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

85.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

98.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

152 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A disillusioned middle-aged banker is contacted by a secretive company that offers wealthy clients a chance to fake their deaths and start over with a surgically altered identity and a new life. Reborn as a younger artist in California, he struggles to find meaning in his manufactured existence and begins to question the true cost of his second chance.

Seconds is a 1966 science-fiction and thriller film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 257 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them. 152 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 157 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.