Is The Bridge on the River Kwai actually good?

The Bridge on the River Kwai sits in the 94.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 94.1% of them.

How does The Bridge on the River Kwai compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1950s, The Bridge on the River Kwai lands in the 89.5% 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 Bridge on the River Kwai's score based on?

343 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Bridge on the River Kwai's score.

1957

global pct

94.1

Film · 1957 · Films · 1950s

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Name: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Released: 1957

Scored from 343 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).

94.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

89.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1950s · 561 titles

99.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

343 calibrated reviewers

Summary

During WWII, British POWs led by the rigidly principled Colonel Nicholson are forced by their Japanese captors to build a railway bridge over the River Kwai in Burma. As Nicholson becomes obsessed with completing the bridge as a monument to British discipline, an Allied commando team mounts a mission through the jungle to destroy it.

Released in 1957, The Bridge on the River Kwai is an adventure, drama and war film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 560 1950s films, not against the whole corpus. 343 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 348 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1950s · 561 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 343
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1950s

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