Is The Towering Inferno actually good?

The Towering Inferno sits in the 78.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 78.1% of them.

How does The Towering Inferno compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, The Towering Inferno lands in the 72.0% 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 Towering Inferno's score based on?

234 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Towering Inferno's score.

1974

global pct

78.1

Film · 1974 · Films · 1970s

The Towering Inferno

Name: The Towering Inferno
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1974

Scored from 234 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

78.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

72.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

95.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

234 calibrated reviewers

Summary

At the gala opening of the world's tallest skyscraper in San Francisco, an electrical fire ignites on a high floor due to substandard wiring and rapidly spreads through the building, trapping hundreds of VIPs at a penthouse party. The architect and the fire chief must work together to rescue the guests as the inferno climbs upward and conventional firefighting tactics fail.

The Towering Inferno (1974) is a film IMDb files under the action, drama and thriller genres.

The calibrated figure is built from 234 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 241 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is The Towering Inferno (1974) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 234
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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