Is The Good Shepherd actually good?

The Good Shepherd sits in the 45.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 45.7% of them.

How does The Good Shepherd compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Good Shepherd lands in the 50.7% 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 Good Shepherd's score based on?

381 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Good Shepherd's score.

2006

global pct

45.7

Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s

The Good Shepherd

Name: The Good Shepherd
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Released: 2006

Scored from 381 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

45.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

50.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

35.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

381 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Edward Wilson, a reserved Yale student recruited into the OSS during World War II, rises through the ranks to become a founding architect of the CIA. As he navigates Cold War espionage, mole hunts, and the fallout of the Bay of Pigs, his obsessive secrecy and divided loyalties slowly corrode his marriage and his relationship with his son.

Released in 2006, The Good Shepherd is a drama, history and thriller film.

381 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 393 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 29 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is The Good Shepherd (2006) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 381
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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