Is U Turn actually good?

U Turn sits in the 46.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 46.6% of them.

How does U Turn compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, U Turn lands in the 44.5% 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 U Turn's score based on?

174 calibrated reviewers stand behind U Turn's score.

1997

global pct

46.6

Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s

U Turn

Name: U Turn
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1997

Scored from 174 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

46.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

44.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

39.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

174 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A down-on-his-luck drifter heading to Las Vegas to pay off a gambling debt breaks down in a desolate Arizona town called Superior. Stranded while his car is repaired, he gets tangled up with the locals, including a seductive young woman and her volatile older husband, who each try to manipulate him into deadly schemes.

U Turn is a 1997 crime, drama and thriller film.

174 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 177 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 740 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.