Is The Great Escape actually good?

The Great Escape sits in the 92.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 92.7% of them.

How does The Great Escape compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, The Great Escape lands in the 90.6% 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 Great Escape's score based on?

379 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Great Escape's score.

1963

global pct

92.7

Film · 1963 · Films · 1960s

The Great Escape

Name: The Great Escape
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1963

Scored from 379 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

92.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

90.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

99.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

379 calibrated reviewers

Summary

During World War II, a group of Allied prisoners of war, many of them seasoned escape artists, are concentrated in a high-security German POW camp designed to hold them. Led by 'Big X,' they orchestrate an audacious mass breakout through hand-dug tunnels, aiming to tie down enemy resources and rejoin the war effort.

The Great Escape is a 1963 adventure, drama and thriller film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4,147 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 379 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 394 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them.

Is The Great Escape (1963) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 379
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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