Is The Matador actually good?

The Matador sits in the 59.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 59.9% of them.

How does The Matador compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Matador lands in the 65.4% 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 Matador's score based on?

200 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Matador's score.

2005

global pct

59.9

Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s

The Matador

Name: The Matador
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Released: 2005

Scored from 200 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

59.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

65.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

77.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

200 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A burned-out, foul-mouthed hitman (Pierce Brosnan) facing a midlife crisis strikes up an unlikely friendship with a struggling traveling salesman (Greg Kinnear) he meets at a hotel bar in Mexico City. Months later, the assassin reappears at the salesman's Denver home, asking for help on one last job.

Released in 2005, The Matador is a comedy, crime and thriller film. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. 200 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 204 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Matador (2005) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 200
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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