Is Sleuth actually good?

Sleuth sits in the 88.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 88.3% of them.

How does Sleuth compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Sleuth lands in the 85.4% 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 Sleuth's score based on?

160 calibrated reviewers stand behind Sleuth's score.

1972

global pct

88.3

Film · 1972 · Films · 1970s

Sleuth

Name: Sleuth
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1972

Scored from 160 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

88.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

85.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

97.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

160 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Wealthy mystery novelist Andrew Wyke invites his wife's younger lover, Milo Tindle, to his lavish English country estate for what seems a civilized discussion. What begins as a proposal involving a staged jewel theft soon spirals into an elaborate cat-and-mouse contest of wits, deception, and gamesmanship between the two men.

Sleuth is a 1972 mystery and thriller film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,869 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 160 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 164 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside.