Is Sweet and Lowdown actually good?

Sweet and Lowdown sits in the 67.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 67.8% of them.

How does Sweet and Lowdown compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Sweet and Lowdown lands in the 67.5% 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 Sweet and Lowdown's score based on?

122 calibrated reviewers stand behind Sweet and Lowdown's score.

1999

global pct

67.8

Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s

Sweet and Lowdown

Name: Sweet and Lowdown
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Released: 1999

Scored from 122 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

67.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

67.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

86.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

122 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A mockumentary chronicling the life of Emmet Ray, a fictional 1930s jazz guitarist who considers himself second only to Django Reinhardt. Brilliant on guitar but a self-absorbed, kleptomaniac drunk offstage, Emmet stumbles through a tender romance with a mute laundress named Hattie and a turbulent marriage to a writer, all while sabotaging his own happiness.

Sweet and Lowdown is a 1999 comedy, drama and music film. Its comedy subtype is Mockumentary.

122 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 123 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 480 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is Sweet and Lowdown (1999) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 122
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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