Is Sex, Lies, and Videotape actually good?

Sex, Lies, and Videotape sits in the 77.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 77.2% of them.

How does Sex, Lies, and Videotape compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Sex, Lies, and Videotape lands in the 74.8% 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 Sex, Lies, and Videotape's score based on?

109 calibrated reviewers stand behind Sex, Lies, and Videotape's score.

1989

global pct

77.2

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Name: Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Genre: Drama
Released: 1989

Scored from 109 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

77.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

74.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

92.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

109 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1989, Sex, Lies, and Videotape is a drama film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,013 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 109 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 113 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.

Is Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 109
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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