Is The Holdovers actually good?

The Holdovers sits in the 90.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 90.1% of them.

How does The Holdovers compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2020s, The Holdovers lands in the 92.5% 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 Holdovers's score based on?

616 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Holdovers's score.

2023

global pct

90.1

Film · 2023 · Films · 2020s

The Holdovers

Name: The Holdovers
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2023

Scored from 616 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).

90.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

92.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles

99.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

616 calibrated reviewers

Summary

At a New England boarding school in 1970, a curmudgeonly classics teacher is stuck supervising the handful of students with nowhere to go over Christmas break. He ends up sharing the holiday with a troubled, bright student and the school's head cook, who is grieving her son lost in Vietnam. Over two weeks, the unlikely trio form a fragile bond that forces each to confront their own disappointments.

The Holdovers is a 2023 comedy and drama film. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

616 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 631 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 842 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is The Holdovers (2023) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 616
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2020s

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