Is Swing Shift actually good?

Swing Shift sits in the 32.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 32.0% of them.

How does Swing Shift compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Swing Shift lands in the 30.0% 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 Swing Shift's score based on?

32 calibrated reviewers stand behind Swing Shift's score.

1984

global pct

32.0

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

Swing Shift

Name: Swing Shift
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Released: 1984

Scored from 32 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

32.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

30.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

27.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

32 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Swing Shift (1984) is a film IMDb files under the drama, romance and war genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 32 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 32 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 58 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.