Is The Night of the Pencils actually good?

The Night of the Pencils sits in the 65.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 65.3% of them.

How does The Night of the Pencils compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Night of the Pencils lands in the 62.5% 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 Night of the Pencils's score based on?

8 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Night of the Pencils's score.

1986

global pct

65.3

Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s

The Night of the Pencils

Name: The Night of the Pencils
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1986

Scored from 8 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

65.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

62.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

58.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

8 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1986, The Night of the Pencils is a crime, drama and thriller film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. Only 8 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 9 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Night of the Pencils (1986) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 8
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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