Is Taxi Driver actually good?

Taxi Driver sits in the 85.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.3% of them.

How does Taxi Driver compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Taxi Driver lands in the 81.4% 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 Taxi Driver's score based on?

1,207 calibrated reviewers stand behind Taxi Driver's score.

1976

global pct

85.3

Film · 1976 · Films · 1970s

Taxi Driver

Name: Taxi Driver
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1976

Scored from 1,207 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

85.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

81.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

98.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

1,207 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Travis Bickle, an insomniac Vietnam veteran working the night shift as a New York City cab driver, grows increasingly disgusted by the squalor and corruption he sees around him. After a failed connection with a campaign worker, he fixates on rescuing a young teenage prostitute from her pimp, arming himself and spiraling toward a violent confrontation.

Taxi Driver (1976) is a film IMDb files under the crime and drama genres.

The calibrated figure is built from 1,207 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 1,331 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 12,091 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them.

Is Taxi Driver (1976) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 1,207
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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