Is The Red Violin actually good?

The Red Violin sits in the 85.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.3% of them.

How does The Red Violin compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Red Violin lands in the 86.6% 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 Red Violin's score based on?

174 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Red Violin's score.

1998

global pct

85.3

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

The Red Violin

Name: The Red Violin
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery
Released: 1998

Scored from 174 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

85.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

86.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

97.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

174 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Spanning three centuries, the film traces the journey of a mysterious crimson-varnished violin crafted in 17th-century Cremona as it passes through the hands of an Austrian orphan prodigy, an English virtuoso, a Chinese family during the Cultural Revolution, and ultimately to a Montreal auction house, where an appraiser uncovers the instrument's haunting secret.

The Red Violin (1998) is a film IMDb files under the drama, music and mystery genres.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,356 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 174 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 184 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.

Is The Red Violin (1998) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 174
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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