Is Silence actually good?

Silence sits in the 61.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 61.8% of them.

How does Silence compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Silence lands in the 68.5% 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 Silence's score based on?

439 calibrated reviewers stand behind Silence's score.

2016

global pct

61.8

Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s

Silence

Name: Silence
Genre: Drama, Historical, Thriller
Released: 2016
Duration: 2 h 41 min
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Issey Ogata, Tadanobu Asano

Scored from 439 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

61.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

68.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

83.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

439 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 17th century Japan, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to find their missing mentor and continue Christian missionary work, only to face a brutal government crackdown systematically persecuting believers and demanding apostasy.

Silence is a 2016 drama, historical and thriller film starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Liam Neeson. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is R. Martin Scorsese directed it. It runs 2h 41m.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 776 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 439 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 458 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

DramaHistoricalThriller

Is Silence (2016) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 439
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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