Is The Silence of the Lambs actually good?

The Silence of the Lambs sits in the 94.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 94.3% of them.

How does The Silence of the Lambs compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Silence of the Lambs lands in the 96.2% 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 Silence of the Lambs's score based on?

1,292 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Silence of the Lambs's score.

1991

global pct

94.3

Film · 1991 · Films · 1990s

The Silence of the Lambs

Name: The Silence of the Lambs
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Released: 1991

Scored from 1,292 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

94.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

96.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

99.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

1,292 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A young FBI trainee, Clarice Starling, is sent to interview the brilliant and cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, hoping his insight will help her track down an active serial killer known as Buffalo Bill. As Lecter trades cryptic clues for personal details about her past, Clarice races to decipher the killer's pattern before his latest captive is murdered.

Released in 1991, The Silence of the Lambs is a crime, drama and horror film.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 1,292 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 1,402 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Silence of the Lambs (1991) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 1,292
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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