Is The Informant! actually good?

The Informant! sits in the 34.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 34.8% of them.

How does The Informant! compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Informant! lands in the 38.5% 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 Informant!'s score based on?

180 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Informant!'s score.

2009

global pct

34.8

Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s

The Informant!

Name: The Informant!
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime
Released: 2009

Scored from 180 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

34.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

38.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

18.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

180 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Mark Whitacre, a rising executive at agribusiness giant ADM, agrees to become an FBI informant and secretly records his colleagues conspiring to fix global lysine prices. As the investigation drags on, his increasingly erratic behavior and tall tales reveal that Whitacre himself may be far less reliable than the agents handling him assumed.

The Informant! is a 2009 biography, comedy and crime film. Its comedy subtype is Satire.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 7 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 180 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 183 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is The Informant! (2009) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 180
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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