Is Sweet Smell of Success actually good?

Sweet Smell of Success sits in the 96.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 96.7% of them.

How does Sweet Smell of Success compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1950s, Sweet Smell of Success lands in the 95.0% 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 Smell of Success's score based on?

169 calibrated reviewers stand behind Sweet Smell of Success's score.

1957

global pct

96.7

Film · 1957 · Films · 1950s

Sweet Smell of Success

Name: Sweet Smell of Success
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Released: 1957

Scored from 169 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).

96.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

95.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1950s · 561 titles

99.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

169 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In New York City, ruthless Broadway gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker enlists a desperate, unscrupulous press agent, Sidney Falco, to break up the romance between his younger sister and a jazz guitarist. Falco schemes to smear the musician in exchange for column placement, drawing both men deeper into moral corruption.

Sweet Smell of Success (1957) is a film IMDb files under the drama and film-noir genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 560 1950s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 500 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 169 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 172 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Sweet Smell of Success (1957) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1950s · 561 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 169
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1950s

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