Is Transamerica actually good?

Transamerica sits in the 88.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 88.3% of them.

How does Transamerica compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Transamerica lands in the 92.5% 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 Transamerica's score based on?

169 calibrated reviewers stand behind Transamerica's score.

2005

global pct

88.3

Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s

Transamerica

Name: Transamerica
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Released: 2005

Scored from 169 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

88.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

92.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

98.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

169 calibrated reviewers

Summary

On the eve of her gender confirmation surgery, Bree, a transgender woman, learns she has an estranged teenage son from a past relationship. She travels to New York to bail him out of jail, then embarks on a cross-country road trip back to Los Angeles without revealing her identity as his parent, navigating an uneasy bond along the way.

Transamerica is a 2005 adventure, comedy and drama film. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,627 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 169 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 173 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Transamerica (2005) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 169
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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