Is Traffic actually good?

Traffic sits in the 65.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 65.3% of them.

How does Traffic compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Traffic lands in the 70.6% 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 Traffic's score based on?

590 calibrated reviewers stand behind Traffic's score.

2000

global pct

65.3

Film · 2000 · Films · 2000s

Traffic

Name: Traffic
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 2000

Scored from 590 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

65.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

70.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

88.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

590 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Steven Soderbergh's interwoven drama follows the war on drugs from multiple angles: a newly appointed U.S. drug czar discovering his own daughter's addiction, two DEA agents protecting a witness against a cartel kingpin, and a Tijuana cop navigating the corruption of Mexico's anti-narcotics effort. The braided storylines expose the futility and moral compromises on every side of the trade.

Traffic is a 2000 crime, drama and thriller film.

590 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 608 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.

Is Traffic (2000) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 590
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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