Is To Sir, with Love actually good?

To Sir, with Love sits in the 88.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 88.0% of them.

How does To Sir, with Love compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, To Sir, with Love lands in the 83.9% 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 To Sir, with Love's score based on?

121 calibrated reviewers stand behind To Sir, with Love's score.

1967

global pct

88.0

Film · 1967 · Films · 1960s

To Sir, with Love

Name: To Sir, with Love
Genre: Drama
Released: 1967

Scored from 121 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

88.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

83.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

97.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

121 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An idealistic engineer, unable to find work in his field, takes a teaching job at a rough East End London school where he is assigned a class of unruly working-class teenagers on the verge of graduation. Abandoning the standard curriculum, he treats them as young adults and tries to prepare them for the realities of adult life, slowly earning their respect.

Released in 1967, To Sir, with Love is a drama film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 684 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 121 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 124 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is To Sir, with Love (1967) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 121
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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