Is The Piano actually good?

The Piano sits in the 51.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 51.5% of them.

How does The Piano compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Piano lands in the 49.7% 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 Piano's score based on?

223 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Piano's score.

1993

global pct

51.5

Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s

The Piano

Name: The Piano
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Released: 1993

Scored from 223 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

51.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

49.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

55.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

223 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In the mid-19th century, a mute Scottish woman is sent with her young daughter and her beloved piano to New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a frontier settler. When her new husband leaves the piano on the beach, a neighbor acquires it and offers her lessons in exchange for intimate bargains, igniting a dangerous passion that upends all three lives.

The Piano (1993) is a film IMDb files under the drama, music and romance genres.

223 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 234 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.