Is The Basketball Diaries actually good?

The Basketball Diaries sits in the 70.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 70.5% of them.

How does The Basketball Diaries compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Basketball Diaries lands in the 70.1% 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 Basketball Diaries's score based on?

144 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Basketball Diaries's score.

1995

global pct

70.5

Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s

The Basketball Diaries

Name: The Basketball Diaries
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Released: 1995

Scored from 144 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

70.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

70.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

89.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

144 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A talented high school basketball player and aspiring writer in New York City spirals into heroin addiction, watching his promising future and friendships unravel as he turns to petty crime and prostitution to feed his habit. Based on the autobiographical writings of poet Jim Carroll.

The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 biography, crime and drama film.

144 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 148 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.

Is The Basketball Diaries (1995) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 144
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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