Is The Artist actually good?

The Artist sits in the 87.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 87.1% of them.

How does The Artist compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, The Artist lands in the 90.8% 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 Artist's score based on?

648 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Artist's score.

2011

global pct

87.1

Film · 2011 · Films · 2010s

The Artist

Name: The Artist
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 2011

Scored from 648 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

87.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

90.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

98.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

648 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In late 1920s Hollywood, silent film star George Valentin sees his career collapse as talking pictures take over the industry. Meanwhile, a young dancer he once helped, Peppy Miller, rises to stardom in the new era of sound. As George struggles with obsolescence and pride, Peppy quietly tries to save him.

The Artist (2011) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and romance genres. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

648 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 662 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 5,787 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.