Is The Verdict actually good?

The Verdict sits in the 93.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 93.1% of them.

How does The Verdict compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Verdict lands in the 93.0% 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 Verdict's score based on?

195 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Verdict's score.

1982

global pct

93.1

Film · 1982 · Films · 1980s

The Verdict

Name: The Verdict
Genre: Drama
Released: 1982

Scored from 195 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

93.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

93.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

99.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

195 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A down-on-his-luck Boston attorney, struggling with alcoholism and a string of failures, takes on a medical malpractice case against a powerful Catholic hospital where a young woman was left in a vegetative state. Offered a quiet settlement, he instead pushes the case to trial in a bid for personal redemption against a formidable defense team.

Released in 1982, The Verdict is a drama film.

195 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 202 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.