Is The Help actually good?

The Help sits in the 81.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 81.5% of them.

How does The Help compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, The Help lands in the 86.0% 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 Help's score based on?

493 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Help's score.

2011

global pct

81.5

Film · 2011 · Films · 2010s

The Help

Name: The Help
Genre: Drama
Released: 2011

Scored from 493 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

81.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

86.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

97.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

493 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, an aspiring young white writer secretly interviews Black maids about their experiences working for white families. As the women share their stories of indignity, love, and resilience, the resulting book threatens to upend the town's rigid social order and put everyone involved at risk.

The Help (2011) is a film IMDb files under the drama genre.

493 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 516 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.

Is The Help (2011) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 493
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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