Is The Natural actually good?

The Natural sits in the 81.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 81.5% of them.

How does The Natural compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Natural lands in the 79.5% 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 Natural's score based on?

177 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Natural's score.

1984

global pct

81.5

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

The Natural

Name: The Natural
Genre: Drama, Sport
Released: 1984

Scored from 177 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

81.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

79.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

96.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

177 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Roy Hobbs, a mysteriously gifted baseball player whose promising career was derailed years earlier by a shocking encounter, resurfaces in middle age to join a struggling 1930s major league team. Armed with a handmade bat called Wonderboy, he must navigate corrupt owners, gamblers, and figures from his past as he chases the greatness that once seemed his destiny.

The Natural (1984) is a film IMDb files under the drama and sport genres.

177 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 186 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.