Is Uncle Buck actually good?

Uncle Buck sits in the 82.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 82.8% of them.

How does Uncle Buck compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Uncle Buck lands in the 81.1% 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 Uncle Buck's score based on?

208 calibrated reviewers stand behind Uncle Buck's score.

1989

global pct

82.8

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

Uncle Buck

Name: Uncle Buck
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1989

Scored from 208 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

82.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

81.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

96.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

208 calibrated reviewers

Summary

When a family emergency forces them to leave town, suburban parents reluctantly entrust their three kids to Buck Russell, the slovenly, unreliable bachelor uncle nobody else wanted to call. As Buck bumbles through school runs, pancake breakfasts, and confrontations with a creepy boyfriend, he forms an unlikely bond with the younger kids while clashing with his rebellious teenage niece.

Uncle Buck is a 1989 comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.

The calibrated figure is built from 208 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 211 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.