Is The Needle actually good?

The Needle sits in the 79.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 79.7% of them.

How does The Needle compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Needle lands in the 77.5% 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 Needle's score based on?

11 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Needle's score.

1988

global pct

79.7

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

The Needle

Name: The Needle
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1988

Scored from 11 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

79.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

77.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

71.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

11 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1988, The Needle is a drama and thriller film.

Only 11 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 11 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.