Is The Grinch actually good?

The Grinch sits in the 29.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 29.3% of them.

How does The Grinch compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, The Grinch lands in the 35.0% 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 Grinch's score based on?

539 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Grinch's score.

2018

global pct

29.3

Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s

The Grinch

Name: The Grinch
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Released: 2018

Scored from 539 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

29.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

35.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

9.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

539 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A grumpy, green recluse who lives in a cave above the cheerful town of Whoville hatches a scheme to steal Christmas from the relentlessly festive Whos by impersonating Santa Claus and swiping their presents, trees, and decorations in a single night. As he carries out his heist, a kindhearted young girl named Cindy-Lou has her own plan to find Santa and help her overworked mother, setting the Grinch on a path toward an unexpected change of heart.

The Grinch (2018) is a film IMDb files under the animation, comedy and family genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 539 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 552 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 809 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is The Grinch (2018) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 539
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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