Is The Chess Players actually good?

The Chess Players sits in the 62.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 62.1% of them.

How does The Chess Players compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, The Chess Players lands in the 53.3% 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 Chess Players's score based on?

26 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Chess Players's score.

1977

global pct

62.1

Film · 1977 · Films · 1970s

The Chess Players

Name: The Chess Players
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Released: 1977

Scored from 26 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

62.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

53.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

66.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

26 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1977, The Chess Players is a comedy, drama and history film.

Only 26 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 26 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 48 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is The Chess Players (1977) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 26
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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