Is The Day of the Jackal actually good?

The Day of the Jackal sits in the 94.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 94.9% of them.

How does The Day of the Jackal compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, The Day of the Jackal lands in the 94.1% 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 Day of the Jackal's score based on?

226 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Day of the Jackal's score.

1973

global pct

94.9

Film · 1973 · Films · 1970s

The Day of the Jackal

Name: The Day of the Jackal
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1973

Scored from 226 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

94.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

94.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

99.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

226 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After a failed assassination attempt on French President Charles de Gaulle, the militant OAS hires a cold, meticulous English contract killer code-named the Jackal to finish the job. As he assembles forged papers, a custom rifle, and disguises across Europe, a dogged French detective races to identify and stop him before he can take the shot.

Released in 1973, The Day of the Jackal is a crime, drama and thriller film.

226 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 230 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is The Day of the Jackal (1973) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 226
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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