Is The Seventh Seal actually good?

The Seventh Seal sits in the 89.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 89.8% of them.

How does The Seventh Seal compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1950s, The Seventh Seal lands in the 80.9% 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 Seventh Seal's score based on?

351 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Seventh Seal's score.

1957

global pct

89.8

Film · 1957 · Films · 1950s

The Seventh Seal

Name: The Seventh Seal
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Released: 1957

Scored from 351 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).

89.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

80.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1950s · 561 titles

99.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

351 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A disillusioned knight returns from the Crusades to a plague-ravaged Sweden and is met by Death, whom he challenges to a game of chess to buy time for answers about God, faith, and meaning. As the game unfolds across his journey home, he encounters a troupe of traveling performers and other souls grappling with mortality.

Released in 1957, The Seventh Seal is a drama and fantasy film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1950s films — 561 of them. 351 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 366 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Seventh Seal (1957) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1950s · 561 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 351
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1950s

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