Is The Vanishing actually good?

The Vanishing sits in the 80.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 80.8% of them.

How does The Vanishing compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Vanishing lands in the 78.9% 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 Vanishing's score based on?

226 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Vanishing's score.

1988

global pct

80.8

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

The Vanishing

Name: The Vanishing
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1988

Scored from 226 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

80.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

78.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

96.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

226 calibrated reviewers

Summary

While on a cycling vacation in France, a young Dutch couple stops at a busy highway rest area where the woman suddenly disappears without a trace. Consumed by an obsessive need to know what happened to her, her boyfriend spends the next three years searching, until the man responsible for her abduction makes contact and offers to reveal the truth.

Released in 1988, The Vanishing is a mystery and thriller film.

226 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 230 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 882 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is The Vanishing (1988) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 226
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

What else scores like The Vanishing?