Is The Pledge actually good?

The Pledge sits in the 49.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 49.2% of them.

How does The Pledge compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Pledge lands in the 54.4% 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 Pledge's score based on?

459 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Pledge's score.

2001

global pct

49.2

Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s

The Pledge

Name: The Pledge
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Released: 2001

Scored from 459 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

49.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

54.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

48.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

459 calibrated reviewers

Summary

On the day of his retirement, Nevada detective Jerry Black pledges to a grieving mother that he will find the killer of her young daughter. Convinced the murderer is still at large despite a coerced confession from another suspect, Jerry settles into a rural gas station and quietly arranges his life as bait, a private obsession that slowly consumes him.

Released in 2001, The Pledge is a crime, drama and mystery film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 459 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 467 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The Pledge (2001) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 459
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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