Is The Birdcage actually good?

The Birdcage sits in the 75.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 75.4% of them.

How does The Birdcage compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Birdcage lands in the 75.3% 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 Birdcage's score based on?

219 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Birdcage's score.

1996

global pct

75.4

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

The Birdcage

Name: The Birdcage
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1996

Scored from 219 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

75.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

75.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

93.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

219 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Armand, the gay owner of a Miami drag club, and his flamboyant partner Albert must pretend to be a conventional straight couple when Armand's son brings home his fiancee and her ultra-conservative right-wing senator father for dinner. Chaos ensues as Albert struggles to play it straight and the two worlds collide in one disastrous evening.

Released in 1996, The Birdcage is a comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Satire.

The calibrated figure is built from 219 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 228 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.