Is Soul Man actually good?

Soul Man sits in the 31.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 31.7% of them.

How does Soul Man compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Soul Man lands in the 29.6% 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 Soul Man's score based on?

38 calibrated reviewers stand behind Soul Man's score.

1986

global pct

31.7

Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s

Soul Man

Name: Soul Man
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: 1986

Scored from 38 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

31.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

29.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

25.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

38 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Soul Man (1986) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and romance genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 38 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 38 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.