Is The BFG actually good?

The BFG sits in the 34.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 34.5% of them.

How does The BFG compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The BFG lands in the 32.1% 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 BFG's score based on?

16 calibrated reviewers stand behind The BFG's score.

1989

global pct

34.5

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

The BFG

Name: The BFG
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Drama
Released: 1989

Scored from 16 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

34.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

32.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

36.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

16 calibrated reviewers

Summary

The BFG (1989) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, animation and drama genres.

Only 16 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 18 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them.