Is The Cove actually good?

The Cove sits in the 92.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 92.9% of them.

How does The Cove compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Cove lands in the 95.9% 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 Cove's score based on?

99 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Cove's score.

2009

global pct

92.9

Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s

The Cove

Name: The Cove
Genre: Biography, Crime, Documentary
Released: 2009

Scored from 99 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

92.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

95.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

98.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

99 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 2009, The Cove is a biography, crime and documentary film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. Only 99 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 105 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.