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The Art of Self-Defense (2019) poster
2019
global pct
43.2

Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s

The Art of Self-Defense

Scored from 296 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

43.2%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
49.8%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
30.4%
AI-adjusted percentile
296 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After being viciously attacked by a gang on his way home, a meek accountant joins a local karate dojo to learn how to defend himself. Under the tutelage of an enigmatic and charismatic sensei, he gains confidence and embraces a more aggressive worldview, but soon discovers the dojo harbors disturbing secrets that force him to confront what masculinity and self-defense really mean.

The Art of Self-Defense (2019) is a film IMDb files under the action, comedy and crime genres. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 285 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 296 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 305 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Art of Self-Defense (2019) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers
296

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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