Is The Experiment actually good?

The Experiment sits in the 80.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 80.3% of them.

How does The Experiment compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Experiment 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 Experiment's score based on?

118 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Experiment's score.

2001

global pct

80.3

Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s

The Experiment

Name: The Experiment
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 2001

Scored from 118 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

80.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

85.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

94.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

118 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A German psychological thriller in which 20 men are recruited for a paid two-week study simulating a prison, randomly assigned roles as guards or prisoners. As the guards enforce escalating rules and the prisoners resist, the experiment spirals out of control with violence, humiliation, and breakdowns of authority. Inspired by the Stanford prison experiment.

Released in 2001, The Experiment is a drama and thriller film.

7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 118 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 123 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The Experiment (2001) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 118
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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