Is The Boys actually good?

The Boys sits in the 50.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 50.3% of them.

How does The Boys compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Boys lands in the 48.5% 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 Boys's score based on?

12 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Boys's score.

1998

global pct

50.3

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

The Boys

Name: The Boys
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1998

Scored from 12 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

50.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

48.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

50.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

12 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1998, The Boys is a crime and drama film.

Only 12 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 13 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.