Is The Devils actually good?

The Devils sits in the 88.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 88.3% of them.

How does The Devils compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, The Devils lands in the 85.6% 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 Devils's score based on?

124 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Devils's score.

1971

global pct

88.3

Film · 1971 · Films · 1970s

The Devils

Name: The Devils
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: 1971

Scored from 124 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

88.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

85.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

97.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

124 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 17th-century France, Urbain Grandier, a worldly Catholic priest in the fortified town of Loudun, makes powerful political enemies as Cardinal Richelieu seeks to consolidate royal authority. When a sexually repressed, hunchbacked prioress develops obsessive fantasies about him, accusations of demonic possession sweep through her convent, and Grandier is put on trial as a sorcerer in a spectacle exploited for political ends.

Released in 1971, The Devils is a biography, drama and history film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 292 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 124 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 127 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them.