Is Trainspotting actually good?

Trainspotting sits in the 87.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 87.5% of them.

How does Trainspotting compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Trainspotting lands in the 88.9% 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 Trainspotting's score based on?

496 calibrated reviewers stand behind Trainspotting's score.

1996

global pct

87.5

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

Trainspotting

Name: Trainspotting
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1996

Scored from 496 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

87.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

88.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

98.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

496 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In Edinburgh, heroin addict Mark Renton drifts through a squalid life with his unreliable friends Sick Boy, Spud, Tommy, and the volatile Begbie. Caught between half-hearted attempts to get clean and the pull of the next fix, Renton eventually tries to break away from the chaos of addiction and his mates to build a different future.

Trainspotting is a 1996 crime and drama film.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 14,278 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 496 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 529 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Trainspotting (1996) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 496
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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