Is The Pianist actually good?

The Pianist sits in the 92.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 92.7% of them.

How does The Pianist compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Pianist lands in the 95.6% 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 Pianist's score based on?

754 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Pianist's score.

2002

global pct

92.7

Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s

The Pianist

Name: The Pianist
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Released: 2002

Scored from 754 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

92.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

95.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

99.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

754 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Warsaw, 1939. Wladyslaw Szpilman, a gifted Polish-Jewish pianist, watches his world collapse as Nazi Germany invades and forces his family into the ghetto. Separated from his loved ones during the deportations, he survives alone in the ruins of the city through hiding, hunger, and the unexpected aid of strangers, clinging to music as the war grinds toward its end.

The Pianist (2002) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and music genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 754 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 805 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.