Is Tongues Untied actually good?

Tongues Untied sits in the 74.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 74.1% of them.

How does Tongues Untied compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Tongues Untied lands in the 71.2% 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 Tongues Untied's score based on?

7 calibrated reviewers stand behind Tongues Untied's score.

1989

global pct

74.1

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

Tongues Untied

Name: Tongues Untied
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1989

Scored from 7 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

74.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

71.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

62.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

7 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Tongues Untied is a 1989 documentary film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 7 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 7 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.