Is The Player actually good?

The Player sits in the 82.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 82.4% of them.

How does The Player compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Player lands in the 83.2% 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 Player's score based on?

184 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Player's score.

1992

global pct

82.4

Film · 1992 · Films · 1990s

The Player

Name: The Player
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Released: 1992

Scored from 184 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

82.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

83.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

96.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

184 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A slick Hollywood studio executive who greenlights films starts receiving anonymous death threats from a writer he rejected. As he tries to identify his tormentor, a confrontation spirals into a cover-up that he must navigate while continuing to wheel and deal in the cutthroat movie business. Robert Altman's satire skewers Hollywood with a sprawling cast of cameos.

The Player (1992) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, crime and drama genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Satire.

The calibrated figure is built from 184 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 191 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.