Is The English Patient actually good?

The English Patient sits in the 51.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 51.5% of them.

How does The English Patient compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The English Patient lands in the 49.7% 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 English Patient's score based on?

427 calibrated reviewers stand behind The English Patient's score.

1996

global pct

51.5

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

The English Patient

Name: The English Patient
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Released: 1996

Scored from 427 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

51.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

49.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

56.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

427 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In the final days of World War II, a severely burned man is cared for by a French-Canadian nurse in an abandoned Italian monastery. As a Sikh sapper and a mysterious thief join them, the patient's fragmented memories reveal a passionate, doomed love affair with a married Englishwoman during a desert expedition in North Africa before the war.

Released in 1996, The English Patient is a drama, romance and war film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. 427 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 443 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The English Patient (1996) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 427
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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