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Sideways (2004) poster
2004
global pct
72.9

Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s

Sideways

Scored from 723 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

72.9%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
78.4%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
94.3%
AI-adjusted percentile
723 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Two middle-aged men embark on a California wine country road trip before one of them gets married. The journey becomes an exploration of romance, friendship, and self-discovery as they navigate wine tastings, failed relationships, and personal disappointments.

Sideways (2004) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and romance genres. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy. It was directed by Alexander Payne. It stars Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen. It runs 2h 7m and carries an R certificate. It was made in the United States.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 10,010 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. 723 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 739 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

ComedyDramaRomance

Is Sideways (2004) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers
723

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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