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Sling Blade (1996) poster
1996
global pct
95.0

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

Sling Blade

Scored from 235 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

95.0%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
96.7%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
99.6%
AI-adjusted percentile
235 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Karl Childers, a mentally challenged man, is released from a state psychiatric hospital decades after killing his mother and her lover as a boy. Returning to his small Arkansas hometown, he befriends a young boy and his kind mother, but grows troubled by her abusive boyfriend's cruelty toward them.

Released in 1996, Sling Blade is a drama film.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 235 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 242 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,474 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is Sling Blade (1996) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers
235

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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