Is The Graduate actually good?

The Graduate sits in the 83.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 83.5% of them.

How does The Graduate compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, The Graduate lands in the 77.7% 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 Graduate's score based on?

658 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Graduate's score.

1967

global pct

83.5

Film · 1967 · Films · 1960s

The Graduate

Name: The Graduate
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1967

Scored from 658 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

83.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

77.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

98.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

658 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock returns home adrift about his future and is seduced into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner. Things grow complicated when Benjamin falls for her daughter Elaine, forcing him to confront the older generation's expectations and fight for a life of his own choosing.

The Graduate (1967) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and romance genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 658 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 680 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The Graduate (1967) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 658
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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