Is The Death of Stalin actually good?

The Death of Stalin sits in the 78.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 78.7% of them.

How does The Death of Stalin compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, The Death of Stalin lands in the 83.7% 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 Death of Stalin's score based on?

391 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Death of Stalin's score.

2017

global pct

78.7

Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s

The Death of Stalin

Name: The Death of Stalin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Released: 2017

Scored from 391 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

78.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

83.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

96.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

391 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1953 Moscow, the sudden collapse and death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin throws his inner circle into chaos. As Khrushchev, Beria, Malenkov and other members of the Central Committee scramble to position themselves for power, their petty rivalries, paranoia, and self-interest play out as dark farce against the backdrop of a terrified nation.

The Death of Stalin (2017) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and history genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 391 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 396 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 486 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is The Death of Stalin (2017) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 391
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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