Is The History Boys actually good?

The History Boys sits in the 40.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 40.8% of them.

How does The History Boys compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The History Boys lands in the 45.1% 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 History Boys's score based on?

137 calibrated reviewers stand behind The History Boys's score.

2006

global pct

40.8

Film · 2006 · Films · 2000s

The History Boys

Name: The History Boys
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 2006

Scored from 137 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

40.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

45.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

28.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

137 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A group of bright, eccentric sixth-form students at a Yorkshire grammar school in the 1980s prepare for Oxford and Cambridge entrance exams under the guidance of two very different teachers: the beloved, unorthodox Hector, who teaches general studies as an end in itself, and the slick young Irwin, hired to coach them in counterintuitive exam technique. Tensions over pedagogy, ambition, sexuality, and what education is really for play out among the boys and their mentors.

The History Boys is a 2006 comedy, drama and romance film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 137 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 143 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The History Boys (2006) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 137
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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