Is Val actually good?

Val sits in the 95.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 95.1% of them.

How does Val compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2020s, Val lands in the 96.3% 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 Val's score based on?

194 calibrated reviewers stand behind Val's score.

2021

global pct

95.1

Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s

Val

Name: Val
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Released: 2021

Scored from 194 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).

95.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

96.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles

99.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

194 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A documentary about actor Val Kilmer, assembled largely from decades of personal home video footage he shot throughout his life and career. Now living with the effects of throat cancer that has altered his voice, Kilmer (narrated by his son Jack) reflects on his upbringing, his Juilliard training, his iconic roles in films like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever, and his relationships with family.

Val (2021) is a film IMDb files under the biography and documentary genres.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 73 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 194 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 201 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.