Is The Black Cauldron actually good?

The Black Cauldron sits in the 19.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 19.6% of them.

How does The Black Cauldron compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Black Cauldron lands in the 17.9% 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 Black Cauldron's score based on?

155 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Black Cauldron's score.

1985

global pct

19.6

Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s

The Black Cauldron

Name: The Black Cauldron
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation
Released: 1985

Scored from 155 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

19.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

17.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

6.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

155 calibrated reviewers

Summary

On a remote farm, young pig-keeper Taran dreams of being a hero when his oracular pig Hen Wen is targeted by the evil Horned King, who seeks the legendary Black Cauldron to raise an army of undead warriors. Joined by the princess Eilonwy, the bard Fflewddur, and the furry creature Gurgi, Taran sets out to find the cauldron first and stop the Horned King's dark plans.

The Black Cauldron is a 1985 action, adventure and animation film.

155 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 160 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,188 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is The Black Cauldron (1985) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 155
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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