Is Venom actually good?

Venom sits in the 46.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 46.5% of them.

How does Venom compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Venom lands in the 53.1% 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 Venom's score based on?

2,551 calibrated reviewers stand behind Venom's score.

2018

global pct

46.5

Film · 2018 · Films · 2010s

Venom

Name: Venom
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released: 2018

Scored from 2,551 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

46.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

53.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

37.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

2,551 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Investigative journalist Eddie Brock loses his career after a botched expose of the Life Foundation, a biotech firm secretly experimenting on humans with alien symbiotes. Sneaking back into the lab, Eddie is bonded with one of the creatures, Venom, gaining monstrous powers and a sarcastic voice in his head. The reluctant pair must work together to stop another symbiote and its host from unleashing an invasion on Earth.

Venom is a 2018 action, adventure and science-fiction film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,545 of whom clear the calibration test. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 2,551 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 2,740 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Venom (2018) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 2,551
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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