Is The Magician actually good?

The Magician sits in the 82.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 82.5% of them.

How does The Magician compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1950s, The Magician lands in the 70.5% 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 Magician's score based on?

41 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Magician's score.

1958

global pct

82.5

Film · 1958 · Films · 1950s

The Magician

Name: The Magician
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1958

Scored from 41 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).

82.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

70.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1950s · 561 titles

89.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

41 calibrated reviewers

Summary

The Magician is a 1958 comedy and drama film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 139 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 560 1950s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 41 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 41 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Magician (1958) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1950s · 561 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 41
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1950s

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