Is The Boxtrolls actually good?

The Boxtrolls sits in the 61.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 61.4% of them.

How does The Boxtrolls compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, The Boxtrolls lands in the 68.2% 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 Boxtrolls's score based on?

138 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Boxtrolls's score.

2014

global pct

61.4

Film · 2014 · Films · 2010s

The Boxtrolls

Name: The Boxtrolls
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Released: 2014

Scored from 138 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

61.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

68.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

79.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

138 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In the town of Cheesebridge, a boy named Eggs is raised underground by the Boxtrolls, gentle scavengers who wear cardboard boxes. When the villainous exterminator Archibald Snatcher schemes to wipe out the Boxtrolls to earn a coveted white hat from the town's cheese-obsessed elite, Eggs ventures aboveground and teams up with a curious girl named Winnie to save his adoptive family.

The Boxtrolls is a 2014 adventure, animation and comedy film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 138 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 142 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 980 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is The Boxtrolls (2014) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 138
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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