Is The Negotiator actually good?

The Negotiator sits in the 74.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 74.6% of them.

How does The Negotiator compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Negotiator lands in the 74.5% 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 Negotiator's score based on?

250 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Negotiator's score.

1998

global pct

74.6

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

The Negotiator

Name: The Negotiator
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Released: 1998

Scored from 250 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

74.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

74.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

93.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

250 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A skilled Chicago police hostage negotiator is framed for the murder of his partner and accused of embezzling from the police pension fund. With no one he can trust inside his own department, he takes hostages in a federal building and demands an outside negotiator to help him uncover the real conspirators.

Released in 1998, The Negotiator is an action, crime and drama film.

250 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 260 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is The Negotiator (1998) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 250
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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