Is Solaris actually good?

Solaris sits in the 69.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 69.8% of them.

How does Solaris compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Solaris lands in the 62.5% 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 Solaris's score based on?

286 calibrated reviewers stand behind Solaris's score.

1972

global pct

69.8

Film · 1972 · Films · 1970s

Solaris

Name: Solaris
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1972

Scored from 286 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

69.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

62.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

90.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

286 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Psychologist Kris Kelvin travels to a remote space station orbiting the mysterious ocean-planet Solaris, where the surviving crew has been driven to the brink by inexplicable visitations. Confronted by a physical manifestation of his dead wife, Kelvin must grapple with guilt, memory, and the limits of human understanding in the face of an alien intelligence.

Solaris is a 1972 adventure, drama and mystery film.

2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 286 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 292 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,785 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is Solaris (1972) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 286
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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