Is The Children's Hour actually good?

The Children's Hour sits in the 83.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 83.2% of them.

How does The Children's Hour compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, The Children's Hour lands in the 77.2% 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 Children's Hour's score based on?

137 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Children's Hour's score.

1961

global pct

83.2

Film · 1961 · Films · 1960s

The Children's Hour

Name: The Children's Hour
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1961

Scored from 137 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

83.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

77.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

96.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

137 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Two women, Karen and Martha, run a private boarding school for girls together. When a malicious student spreads a damaging rumor about the nature of their friendship, the accusation spreads through the town and unravels their careers, relationships, and lives.

The Children's Hour is a 1961 drama and romance film.

137 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 141 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is The Children's Hour (1961) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 137
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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