Is The Men Who Stare at Goats actually good?

The Men Who Stare at Goats sits in the 24.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 24.4% of them.

How does The Men Who Stare at Goats compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Men Who Stare at Goats lands in the 26.8% 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 Men Who Stare at Goats's score based on?

270 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Men Who Stare at Goats's score.

2009

global pct

24.4

Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Name: The Men Who Stare at Goats
Genre: Comedy, War
Released: 2009

Scored from 270 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

24.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

26.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

7.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

270 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A down-on-his-luck reporter stumbles onto the story of a lifetime when he meets a former operator of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a secret unit that trained soldiers to become psychic 'warrior monks' with paranormal abilities. Together they trek across Iraq on a vaguely defined mission, encountering the unit's troubled legacy along the way.

The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and war genres. Its comedy subtype is Satire.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. 270 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 276 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 270
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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