Is The Brutalist actually good?

The Brutalist sits in the 43.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 43.2% of them.

How does The Brutalist compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2020s, The Brutalist lands in the 53.2% 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 Brutalist's score based on?

533 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Brutalist's score.

2024

global pct

43.2

Film · 2024 · Films · 2020s

The Brutalist

Name: The Brutalist
Genre: Drama
Released: 2024

Scored from 533 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).

43.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

53.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles

29.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

533 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After fleeing post-war Europe, Hungarian-Jewish architect Laszlo Toth arrives in America hoping to rebuild his life and reunite with his wife. When a wealthy Pennsylvania industrialist commissions him to design an ambitious monument, the project consumes years of his life and tests his vision, identity, and relationships as he struggles against exploitation and the cost of artistic ambition.

Released in 2024, The Brutalist is a drama film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 579 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 533 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 589 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The Brutalist (2024) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 533
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2020s

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