Is The Thin Blue Line actually good?

The Thin Blue Line sits in the 96.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 96.6% of them.

How does The Thin Blue Line compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Thin Blue Line lands in the 96.4% 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 Thin Blue Line's score based on?

63 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Thin Blue Line's score.

1988

global pct

96.6

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

The Thin Blue Line

Name: The Thin Blue Line
Genre: Crime, Documentary
Released: 1988

Scored from 63 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

96.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

96.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

98.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

63 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1988, The Thin Blue Line is a crime and documentary film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 63 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 66 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Thin Blue Line (1988) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 63
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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