Is The Substance actually good?

The Substance sits in the 49.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 49.4% of them.

How does The Substance compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2020s, The Substance lands in the 58.7% 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 Substance's score based on?

2,048 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Substance's score.

2024

global pct

49.4

Film · 2024 · Films · 2020s

The Substance

Name: The Substance
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Released: 2024

Scored from 2,048 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).

49.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

58.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles

48.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

2,048 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A fading celebrity fitness star, dropped from her TV show after turning 50, takes a black-market drug that generates a younger, 'better' version of herself. The two share one body on a strict weekly switch, but when the younger self breaks the rules to hold on to fame, the arrangement collapses into a grotesque body-horror reckoning.

The Substance (2024) is a film IMDb files under the drama, horror and science-fiction genres.

The calibrated figure is built from 2,048 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 2,128 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,811 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them.

Is The Substance (2024) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 2,048
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2020s

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