Is Smoke Signals actually good?

Smoke Signals sits in the 80.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 80.6% of them.

How does Smoke Signals compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Smoke Signals lands in the 81.1% 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 Smoke Signals's score based on?

74 calibrated reviewers stand behind Smoke Signals's score.

1998

global pct

80.6

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

Smoke Signals

Name: Smoke Signals
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1998

Scored from 74 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

80.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

81.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

92.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

74 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Smoke Signals (1998) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and drama genres.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. Only 74 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 79 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 593 of whom clear the calibration test.