Is The Great Silence actually good?

The Great Silence sits in the 90.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 90.9% of them.

How does The Great Silence compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, The Great Silence lands in the 87.3% 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 Silence's score based on?

125 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Great Silence's score.

1968

global pct

90.9

Film · 1968 · Films · 1960s

The Great Silence

Name: The Great Silence
Genre: Drama, Western
Released: 1968

Scored from 125 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

90.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

87.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

98.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

125 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In the snowbound mountains of Utah, a mute gunslinger known as Silence is hired by a young widow to avenge her husband against a ruthless band of bounty hunters led by the sadistic Loco, who exploit a law allowing them to kill outlaws on sight. As Silence faces off against Loco in a bleak frontier town, the film builds toward a stark confrontation over justice, greed, and survival.

Released in 1968, The Great Silence is a drama and western film.

125 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 126 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 266 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is The Great Silence (1968) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 125
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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