Is The Boy Who Could Fly actually good?

The Boy Who Could Fly sits in the 88.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 88.2% of them.

How does The Boy Who Could Fly compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Boy Who Could Fly lands in the 87.5% 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 Boy Who Could Fly's score based on?

34 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Boy Who Could Fly's score.

1986

global pct

88.2

Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s

The Boy Who Could Fly

Name: The Boy Who Could Fly
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Released: 1986

Scored from 34 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

88.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

87.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

90.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

34 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1986, The Boy Who Could Fly is a drama, fantasy and romance film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 34 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 35 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Boy Who Could Fly (1986) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 34
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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