Is Urban Cowboy actually good?

Urban Cowboy sits in the 62.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 62.1% of them.

How does Urban Cowboy compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Urban Cowboy lands in the 59.1% 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 Urban Cowboy's score based on?

88 calibrated reviewers stand behind Urban Cowboy's score.

1980

global pct

62.1

Film · 1980 · Films · 1980s

Urban Cowboy

Name: Urban Cowboy
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Released: 1980

Scored from 88 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

62.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

59.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

77.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

88 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Urban Cowboy (1980) is a film IMDb files under the drama, romance and western genres.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 642 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 88 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 90 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.