Is Sorcerer actually good?

Sorcerer sits in the 93.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 93.5% of them.

How does Sorcerer compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Sorcerer lands in the 92.6% 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 Sorcerer's score based on?

178 calibrated reviewers stand behind Sorcerer's score.

1977

global pct

93.5

Film · 1977 · Films · 1970s

Sorcerer

Name: Sorcerer
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1977

Scored from 178 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

93.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

92.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

99.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

178 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Four desperate fugitives from different corners of the world end up stranded in a remote South American village, where an oil company offers them a fortune to drive two trucks loaded with unstable, sweating dynamite over 200 miles of treacherous jungle terrain to extinguish a burning well. William Friedkin's grueling reimagining of The Wages of Fear follows their harrowing journey across rotting bridges and guerrilla-held roads.

Released in 1977, Sorcerer is an adventure, drama and thriller film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them. 178 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 183 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.