Is The Pelican Brief actually good?

The Pelican Brief sits in the 48.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 48.1% of them.

How does The Pelican Brief compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Pelican Brief lands in the 46.2% 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 Pelican Brief's score based on?

146 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Pelican Brief's score.

1993

global pct

48.1

Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s

The Pelican Brief

Name: The Pelican Brief
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1993

Scored from 146 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

48.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

46.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

44.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

146 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A sharp Tulane law student writes a speculative legal brief naming a possible culprit behind the assassinations of two Supreme Court justices. When her theory triggers deadly attempts on her life, she goes on the run and teams up with a Washington investigative reporter to uncover a powerful conspiracy reaching the highest levels of government.

Released in 1993, The Pelican Brief is a crime, drama and mystery film.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 146 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 149 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Pelican Brief (1993) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 146
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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