Is The Shallows actually good?

The Shallows sits in the 46.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 46.8% of them.

How does The Shallows compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, The Shallows lands in the 53.5% 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 Shallows's score based on?

572 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Shallows's score.

2016

global pct

46.8

Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s

The Shallows

Name: The Shallows
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Released: 2016

Scored from 572 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

46.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

53.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

39.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

572 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A medical student takes a solo surfing trip to a secluded Mexican beach to grieve her mother's death. After a great white shark attacks her, she finds herself stranded on a small rock just 200 yards from shore, injured and forced to outwit the predator to survive until the tide turns.

Released in 2016, The Shallows is a drama, horror and thriller film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,398 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 572 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 584 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The Shallows (2016) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 572
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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