Is True Romance actually good?

True Romance sits in the 85.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.3% of them.

How does True Romance compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, True Romance lands in the 86.6% 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 True Romance's score based on?

468 calibrated reviewers stand behind True Romance's score.

1993

global pct

85.3

Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s

True Romance

Name: True Romance
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Released: 1993

Scored from 468 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

85.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

86.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

98.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

468 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A lonely Detroit comic book clerk falls for a call girl on her first night on the job, and after a whirlwind marriage he kills her pimp and unwittingly makes off with a suitcase full of mob cocaine. The newlyweds flee to Los Angeles hoping to sell the stash and start a new life, with both the mafia and the cops closing in.

True Romance is a 1993 crime, drama and romance film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 7,709 of whom clear the calibration test. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 468 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 498 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.