Is Sinister actually good?

Sinister sits in the 53.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 53.2% of them.

How does Sinister compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Sinister lands in the 60.1% 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 Sinister's score based on?

786 calibrated reviewers stand behind Sinister's score.

2012

global pct

53.2

Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s

Sinister

Name: Sinister
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Crime
Released: 2012
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, James Ransone, Michael Hall D'Addario, Fred Dalton Thompson

Scored from 786 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

53.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

60.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

63.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

786 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A true-crime writer discovers a box of snuff films documenting brutal murders tied to seemingly unrelated deaths in different families. As he investigates, he uncovers a sinister supernatural force connecting the killings and threatening his own family.

Sinister is a 2012 horror, thriller and crime film starring Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance and James Ransone. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Scott Derrickson directed it. It runs 1h 50m.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4,161 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 786 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 817 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

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Is Sinister (2012) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 786
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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