Is The Truman Show actually good?

The Truman Show sits in the 89.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 89.7% of them.

How does The Truman Show compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Truman Show lands in the 91.6% 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 Truman Show's score based on?

1,080 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Truman Show's score.

1998

global pct

89.7

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

The Truman Show

Name: The Truman Show
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1998

Scored from 1,080 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

89.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

91.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

99.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

1,080 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Truman Burbank lives an ordinary suburban life, unaware that since birth he has been the unwitting star of a 24/7 reality television show broadcast to the world. As small cracks appear in his meticulously constructed reality, he begins to suspect that the people and places around him are not what they seem and sets out to discover the truth.

Released in 1998, The Truman Show is a comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

The calibrated figure is built from 1,080 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 1,149 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is The Truman Show (1998) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 1,080
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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