Is Vertigo actually good?

Vertigo sits in the 90.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 90.2% of them.

How does Vertigo compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1950s, Vertigo lands in the 81.8% 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 Vertigo's score based on?

868 calibrated reviewers stand behind Vertigo's score.

1958

global pct

90.2

Film · 1958 · Films · 1950s

Vertigo

Name: Vertigo
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Released: 1958

Scored from 868 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).

90.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

81.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1950s · 561 titles

99.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

868 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A San Francisco detective forced into early retirement by acrophobia is hired by an old acquaintance to follow his troubled wife, who seems possessed by the past. As he trails her through the city, he falls obsessively in love with her, setting off a spiral of guilt, deception, and identity that he cannot escape.

Released in 1958, Vertigo is a mystery, romance and thriller film.

868 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 919 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 6,035 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 560 other films from the 1950s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is Vertigo (1958) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1950s · 561 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 868
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1950s

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