Is The Fisher King actually good?

The Fisher King sits in the 85.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.1% of them.

How does The Fisher King compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Fisher King lands in the 86.2% 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 Fisher King's score based on?

179 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Fisher King's score.

1991

global pct

85.1

Film · 1991 · Films · 1990s

The Fisher King

Name: The Fisher King
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Released: 1991

Scored from 179 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

85.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

86.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

97.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

179 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A shock-jock radio host, devastated after his on-air rant indirectly triggers a mass shooting, drifts into self-destruction until he crosses paths with a delusional homeless man on a quest for the Holy Grail. As an unlikely friendship forms, he tries to help the broken stranger find love and redemption, hoping to atone for his own past in the process.

The Fisher King is a 1991 comedy, drama and fantasy film. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. 179 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 184 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Fisher King (1991) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 179
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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