Is The Apartment actually good?

The Apartment sits in the 97.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 97.3% of them.

How does The Apartment compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, The Apartment lands in the 96.8% 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 Apartment's score based on?

408 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Apartment's score.

1960

global pct

97.3

Film · 1960 · Films · 1960s

The Apartment

Name: The Apartment
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1960

Scored from 408 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

97.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

96.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

99.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

408 calibrated reviewers

Summary

C.C. Baxter, a lonely insurance clerk in Manhattan, climbs the corporate ladder by lending his apartment to senior executives for their extramarital trysts. His scheme grows complicated when he develops feelings for elevator operator Fran Kubelik, only to discover she is the mistress of his philandering boss. Billy Wilder's bittersweet comedy-drama balances office satire with genuine tenderness.

Released in 1960, The Apartment is a comedy, drama and romance film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

The calibrated figure is built from 408 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 418 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them.

Is The Apartment (1960) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 408
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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