Is The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones actually good?

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones sits in the 17.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 17.5% of them.

How does The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones lands in the 21.7% 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 Mortal Instruments: City of Bones's score based on?

288 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones's score.

2013

global pct

17.5

Film · 2013 · Films · 2010s

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Name: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Released: 2013

Scored from 288 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

17.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

21.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

3.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

288 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Teenager Clary Fray discovers she descends from the Shadowhunters, a secret order of warriors who protect humans from demons. After her mother is abducted, Clary is drawn into a hidden world of vampires, werewolves, and warlocks in New York City, where she must recover a powerful artifact called the Mortal Cup before it falls into the wrong hands.

Released in 2013, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is an action, adventure and fantasy film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,570 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 288 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 306 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 288
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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