Is The Exorcist actually good?

The Exorcist sits in the 88.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 88.4% of them.

How does The Exorcist compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, The Exorcist lands in the 85.9% 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 Exorcist's score based on?

1,113 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Exorcist's score.

1973

global pct

88.4

Film · 1973 · Films · 1970s

The Exorcist

Name: The Exorcist
Genre: Horror
Released: 1973

Scored from 1,113 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

88.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

85.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

99.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

1,113 calibrated reviewers

Summary

When 12-year-old Regan begins exhibiting violent, inexplicable behavior, her terrified mother turns to doctors and psychiatrists for answers. After medical science fails, she enlists two Catholic priests, a young man wrestling with his faith and a seasoned veteran, to perform an exorcism on the girl, who appears to be possessed by a demonic entity.

The Exorcist is a 1973 horror film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus. 1,113 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 1,170 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Exorcist (1973) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 1,113
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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