Is The Relic actually good?

The Relic sits in the 30.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 30.4% of them.

How does The Relic compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Relic lands in the 28.0% 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 Relic's score based on?

171 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Relic's score.

1997

global pct

30.4

Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s

The Relic

Name: The Relic
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Released: 1997

Scored from 171 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

30.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

28.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

13.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

171 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After a researcher vanishes in the Amazon, a mysterious crate of artifacts arrives at Chicago's Field Museum just as a gala opening approaches. A skeptical biologist and a homicide detective race to stop a savage creature stalking the museum's halls, hunting victims for a very specific biological need.

The Relic is a 1997 horror, mystery and science-fiction film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. 171 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 175 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 602 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.