Is The Blackening actually good?

The Blackening sits in the 35.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 35.8% of them.

How does The Blackening compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2020s, The Blackening lands in the 45.2% 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 Blackening's score based on?

124 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Blackening's score.

2022

global pct

35.8

Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s

The Blackening

Name: The Blackening
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Released: 2022

Scored from 124 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).

35.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

45.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles

21.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

124 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A group of Black friends reunite at a remote cabin for a Juneteenth weekend getaway, only to find themselves trapped by a masked killer who forces them to play a racist board game called 'The Blackening.' To survive the night, they must outwit their tormentor and figure out which of them is 'the Blackest' - and who among them might be working with the killer.

Released in 2022, The Blackening is a comedy, horror and mystery film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

The calibrated figure is built from 124 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 129 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 282 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them.

Is The Blackening (2022) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 124
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2020s

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