Is Shanghai Blues actually good?

Shanghai Blues sits in the 87.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 87.4% of them.

How does Shanghai Blues compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Shanghai Blues lands in the 86.1% 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 Shanghai Blues's score based on?

5 calibrated reviewers stand behind Shanghai Blues's score.

1984

global pct

87.4

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

Shanghai Blues

Name: Shanghai Blues
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: 1984

Scored from 5 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

87.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

86.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

65.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

5 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1984, Shanghai Blues is a comedy and romance film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. Only 5 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 5 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 8 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.