Is The Sting actually good?

The Sting sits in the 94.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 94.6% of them.

How does The Sting compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, The Sting lands in the 93.8% 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 Sting's score based on?

353 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Sting's score.

1973

global pct

94.6

Film · 1973 · Films · 1970s

The Sting

Name: The Sting
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Released: 1973

Scored from 353 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

94.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

93.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

99.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

353 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Set in 1930s Chicago, two grifters team up to pull off an elaborate long con against a ruthless New York crime boss who had one of their friends killed. Posing as players in a fake off-track betting parlor, they orchestrate an intricate scheme of deception, double-crosses, and misdirection to take the mark for everything he's worth.

The Sting (1973) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, crime and drama genres.

353 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 365 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside.