Is The Shadow actually good?

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

How does The Shadow compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Shadow lands in the 61.7% 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 Shadow's score based on?

130 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Shadow's score.

1994

global pct

62.7

Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s

The Shadow

Name: The Shadow
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Released: 1994

Scored from 130 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

62.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

61.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

80.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

130 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1930s New York, reformed opium warlord Lamont Cranston has been trained to use his psychic powers to cloud men's minds and fight crime as the mysterious vigilante known as The Shadow. When Shiwan Khan, the last descendant of Genghis Khan, arrives in the city with a plan to hold the world hostage using an atomic bomb, Cranston must stop him while navigating his growing attraction to telepathic socialite Margo Lane.

Released in 1994, The Shadow is an action, adventure and crime film.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 130 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 133 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.