Is The BFG actually good?

The BFG sits in the 52.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 52.9% of them.

How does The BFG compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, The BFG lands in the 59.9% 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?

241 calibrated reviewers stand behind The BFG's score.

2016

global pct

52.9

Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s

The BFG

Name: The BFG
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Released: 2016

Scored from 241 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

52.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

59.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

60.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

241 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A young orphan girl named Sophie is whisked away from her London orphanage by a Big Friendly Giant who collects and delivers dreams. As Sophie adjusts to life in Giant Country, she discovers the BFG is bullied by larger, man-eating giants, and the two hatch a plan with the Queen of England to stop them.

Released in 2016, The BFG is an adventure, family and fantasy film.

The calibrated figure is built from 241 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 248 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,152 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.

Is The BFG (2016) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 241
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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