Is The Butcher Boy actually good?

The Butcher Boy sits in the 80.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 80.8% of them.

How does The Butcher Boy compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Butcher Boy lands in the 81.2% 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 Butcher Boy's score based on?

44 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Butcher Boy's score.

1997

global pct

80.8

Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s

The Butcher Boy

Name: The Butcher Boy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1997

Scored from 44 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

80.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

81.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

89.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

44 calibrated reviewers

Summary

The Butcher Boy (1997) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and drama genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 44 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 44 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is The Butcher Boy (1997) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 44
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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