Is The First Wives Club actually good?

The First Wives Club sits in the 41.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 41.3% of them.

How does The First Wives Club compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The First Wives Club lands in the 38.3% 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 First Wives Club's score based on?

122 calibrated reviewers stand behind The First Wives Club's score.

1996

global pct

41.3

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

The First Wives Club

Name: The First Wives Club
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1996

Scored from 122 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

41.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

38.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

29.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

122 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Three middle-aged college friends reunite after a fourth classmate's suicide and discover they share a common bond: each has been dumped by her husband for a younger woman. Banding together, they plot an elaborate revenge to take their exes for everything they're worth and reclaim their own lives in the process.

Released in 1996, The First Wives Club is a comedy film. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. 122 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 125 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The First Wives Club (1996) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 122
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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