Is Up in the Air actually good?

Up in the Air sits in the 79.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 79.6% of them.

How does Up in the Air compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Up in the Air lands in the 85.1% 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 Up in the Air's score based on?

527 calibrated reviewers stand behind Up in the Air's score.

2009

global pct

79.6

Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s

Up in the Air

Name: Up in the Air
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 2009

Scored from 527 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

79.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

85.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

96.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

527 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizer who spends his life flying across the country firing people on behalf of companies, embracing a philosophy of rootless detachment. When a young colleague proposes replacing in-person layoffs with video conferencing, his airborne lifestyle is threatened, even as a budding romance with a fellow frequent flyer forces him to reconsider what he values.

Up in the Air is a 2009 comedy, drama and romance 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: 12,466 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 527 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 541 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Up in the Air (2009) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 527
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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