Is The Insider actually good?

The Insider sits in the 88.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 88.0% of them.

How does The Insider compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Insider lands in the 89.5% 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 Insider's score based on?

409 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Insider's score.

1999

global pct

88.0

Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s

The Insider

Name: The Insider
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: 1999

Scored from 409 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

88.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

89.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

98.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

409 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A former tobacco executive turned whistleblower partners with a 60 Minutes producer to expose how cigarette companies knowingly manipulated nicotine levels. As CBS executives pressure the news team to kill the story under threat of a massive lawsuit, both men face mounting personal and professional costs for telling the truth.

The Insider is a 1999 biography, drama and history film.

The calibrated figure is built from 409 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 425 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus.