Is The Squid and the Whale actually good?

The Squid and the Whale sits in the 66.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 66.5% of them.

How does The Squid and the Whale compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Squid and the Whale lands in the 71.9% 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 Squid and the Whale's score based on?

235 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Squid and the Whale's score.

2005

global pct

66.5

Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s

The Squid and the Whale

Name: The Squid and the Whale
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2005

Scored from 235 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

66.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

71.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

87.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

235 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1980s Brooklyn, two brothers navigate the bitter divorce of their self-absorbed novelist father and their increasingly successful writer mother. As the family splits time between two households, the boys take sides and act out, with the older son mimicking his father's pretensions while the younger one spirals into troubling behavior.

Released in 2005, The Squid and the Whale is a comedy and drama film. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

235 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 243 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is The Squid and the Whale (2005) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 235
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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