Is The Goonies actually good?

The Goonies sits in the 77.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 77.5% of them.

How does The Goonies compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Goonies lands in the 75.1% 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 Goonies's score based on?

426 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Goonies's score.

1985

global pct

77.5

Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s

The Goonies

Name: The Goonies
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Released: 1985

Scored from 426 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

77.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

75.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

95.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

426 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A group of kids in a coastal Oregon town facing the demolition of their neighborhood discover an old pirate map in an attic and set off in search of the legendary treasure of One-Eyed Willy. Their adventure through booby-trapped underground caverns is complicated by a family of fugitive criminals hunting the same fortune.

Released in 1985, The Goonies is an adventure, comedy and family film.

426 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 462 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.