Is Stranger Than Paradise actually good?

Stranger Than Paradise sits in the 51.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 51.6% of them.

How does Stranger Than Paradise compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Stranger Than Paradise lands in the 49.2% 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 Stranger Than Paradise's score based on?

101 calibrated reviewers stand behind Stranger Than Paradise's score.

1984

global pct

51.6

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

Stranger Than Paradise

Name: Stranger Than Paradise
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1984

Scored from 101 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

51.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

49.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

54.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

101 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1984, Stranger Than Paradise is a comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 708 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 101 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 102 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Stranger Than Paradise (1984) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 101
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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