Is The Babadook actually good?

The Babadook sits in the 56.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 56.3% of them.

How does The Babadook compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, The Babadook lands in the 63.1% 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 Babadook's score based on?

883 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Babadook's score.

2014

global pct

56.3

Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s

The Babadook

Name: The Babadook
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Released: 2014

Scored from 883 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

56.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

63.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

73.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

883 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A grieving widow struggles to raise her troubled young son, whose fears of a monster from a mysterious pop-up book called Mister Babadook begin to feel disturbingly real. As strange occurrences escalate inside their home, the mother's grip on sanity unravels, and she must confront the malevolent presence threatening to consume them both.

The Babadook is a 2014 drama, horror and mystery film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,487 of whom clear the calibration test. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 883 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 924 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The Babadook (2014) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 883
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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