Is The Principal actually good?

The Principal sits in the 62.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 62.7% of them.

How does The Principal compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Principal lands in the 59.9% 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 Principal's score based on?

58 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Principal's score.

1987

global pct

62.7

Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s

The Principal

Name: The Principal
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Released: 1987

Scored from 58 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

62.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

59.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

75.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

58 calibrated reviewers

Summary

The Principal is a 1987 action, crime and drama film.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 154 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 58 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 59 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.