Is Terms of Endearment actually good?

Terms of Endearment sits in the 68.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 68.6% of them.

How does Terms of Endearment compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Terms of Endearment lands in the 65.5% 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 Terms of Endearment's score based on?

207 calibrated reviewers stand behind Terms of Endearment's score.

1983

global pct

68.6

Film · 1983 · Films · 1980s

Terms of Endearment

Name: Terms of Endearment
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1983

Scored from 207 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

68.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

65.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

89.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

207 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Spanning three decades, this film follows the complicated, often contentious bond between strong-willed Houston widow Aurora Greenway and her free-spirited daughter Emma. As Emma marries an unfaithful college professor and starts a family, Aurora navigates her own late-blooming romance with a brash former astronaut next door, while mother and daughter weather life's joys and hardships together.

Terms of Endearment is a 1983 comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

The calibrated figure is built from 207 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 216 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,356 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is Terms of Endearment (1983) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 207
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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