Is The Killing Fields actually good?

The Killing Fields sits in the 92.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 92.6% of them.

How does The Killing Fields compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Killing Fields lands in the 92.6% 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 Killing Fields's score based on?

164 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Killing Fields's score.

1984

global pct

92.6

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

The Killing Fields

Name: The Killing Fields
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: 1984

Scored from 164 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

92.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

92.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

99.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

164 calibrated reviewers

Summary

During the Cambodian civil war, New York Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg and his local interpreter Dith Pran cover the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge in 1975. When foreigners are evacuated, Pran is left behind and must survive the brutal regime's labor camps, while Schanberg searches for him from afar.

Released in 1984, The Killing Fields is a biography, drama and history film.

The calibrated figure is built from 164 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 172 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is The Killing Fields (1984) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 164
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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