Is The Kid with the Golden Arm actually good?

The Kid with the Golden Arm sits in the 91.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 91.2% of them.

How does The Kid with the Golden Arm compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, The Kid with the Golden Arm lands in the 89.2% 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 Kid with the Golden Arm's score based on?

18 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Kid with the Golden Arm's score.

1979

global pct

91.2

Film · 1979 · Films · 1970s

The Kid with the Golden Arm

Name: The Kid with the Golden Arm
Genre: Action, Drama
Released: 1979

Scored from 18 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

91.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

89.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

85.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

18 calibrated reviewers

Summary

The Kid with the Golden Arm (1979) is a film IMDb files under the action and drama genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 18 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 18 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Kid with the Golden Arm (1979) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 18
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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