Is The Sound of Music actually good?

The Sound of Music sits in the 96.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 96.4% of them.

How does The Sound of Music compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, The Sound of Music lands in the 95.5% 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 Sound of Music's score based on?

439 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Sound of Music's score.

1965

global pct

96.4

Film · 1965 · Films · 1960s

The Sound of Music

Name: The Sound of Music
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Released: 1965

Scored from 439 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

96.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

95.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

99.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

439 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1930s Austria, free-spirited postulant Maria leaves her abbey to work as governess for the seven children of stern widower Captain Georg von Trapp. Through music she wins over the children and eventually the Captain himself, but their new life together is threatened by the Nazi annexation of Austria.

Released in 1965, The Sound of Music is a biography, drama and family film.

The calibrated figure is built from 439 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 471 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is The Sound of Music (1965) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 439
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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