Is Time Bandits actually good?

Time Bandits sits in the 73.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 73.8% of them.

How does Time Bandits compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Time Bandits lands in the 71.0% 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 Time Bandits's score based on?

175 calibrated reviewers stand behind Time Bandits's score.

1981

global pct

73.8

Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s

Time Bandits

Name: Time Bandits
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Released: 1981

Scored from 175 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

73.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

71.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

92.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

175 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A young boy obsessed with history is swept up by a band of time-traveling dwarves who have stolen a map of holes in the fabric of the universe from their former employer, the Supreme Being. Together they leap through eras, plundering treasure from figures like Napoleon, Robin Hood, and Agamemnon, while the Evil Genius schemes to seize the map for himself.

Time Bandits is a 1981 adventure, comedy and fantasy film.

The calibrated figure is built from 175 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 179 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.