Is The Princess Bride actually good?

The Princess Bride sits in the 91.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 91.1% of them.

How does The Princess Bride compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Princess Bride lands in the 90.9% 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 Princess Bride's score based on?

673 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Princess Bride's score.

1987

global pct

91.1

Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s

The Princess Bride

Name: The Princess Bride
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Released: 1987

Scored from 673 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

91.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

90.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

99.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

673 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A grandfather reads his sick grandson a fairy tale about Buttercup, a young woman whose true love Westley is presumed dead at sea. When she is forced into engagement with the scheming Prince Humperdinck and kidnapped by a trio of outlaws, a masked stranger pursues them across a perilous landscape of cliffs, swordfights, and the Fire Swamp to win her back.

Released in 1987, The Princess Bride is an adventure, comedy and family film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. 673 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 732 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Princess Bride (1987) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 673
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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