Is The Telephone actually good?

The Telephone sits in the 9.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 9.4% of them.

How does The Telephone compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Telephone lands in the 9.3% 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 Telephone's score based on?

17 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Telephone's score.

1988

global pct

9.4

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

The Telephone

Name: The Telephone
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1988

Scored from 17 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

9.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

9.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

16.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

17 calibrated reviewers

Summary

The Telephone (1988) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and drama genres.

Only 17 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 18 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 23 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.