Is The 5th Wave actually good?

The 5th Wave sits in the 10.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 10.6% of them.

How does The 5th Wave compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, The 5th Wave lands in the 13.5% 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 The 5th Wave's score based on?

405 calibrated reviewers stand behind The 5th Wave's score.

2016

global pct

10.6

Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s

The 5th Wave

Name: The 5th Wave
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released: 2016

Scored from 405 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

10.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

13.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

1.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

405 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After waves of devastating alien attacks wipe out most of humanity, teenager Cassie Sullivan is separated from her younger brother and must survive on her own in a hostile landscape. As she fights to find him, she discovers that the invaders have infiltrated human ranks, forcing her to question who she can trust while a group of recruited child soldiers is trained for the next wave.

The 5th Wave (2016) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and science-fiction genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 405 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 420 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The 5th Wave (2016) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 405
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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