Is The Swimmer actually good?

The Swimmer sits in the 93.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 93.3% of them.

How does The Swimmer compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, The Swimmer lands in the 91.4% 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 Swimmer's score based on?

165 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Swimmer's score.

1968

global pct

93.3

Film · 1968 · Films · 1960s

The Swimmer

Name: The Swimmer
Genre: Drama
Released: 1968

Scored from 165 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

93.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

91.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

99.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

165 calibrated reviewers

Summary

On a sunny afternoon in suburban Connecticut, Ned Merrill decides to swim home across a chain of his neighbors' backyard pools, which he dubs a 'river.' As he travels from pool to pool, each encounter peels back layers of his charmed self-image, revealing harder truths about his life, finances, and relationships.

Released in 1968, The Swimmer is a drama film.

The calibrated figure is built from 165 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 166 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. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3 of whom clear the calibration test.