Is Wait Until Dark actually good?

Wait Until Dark sits in the 90.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 90.4% of them.

How does Wait Until Dark compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, Wait Until Dark lands in the 86.7% 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 Wait Until Dark's score based on?

197 calibrated reviewers stand behind Wait Until Dark's score.

1967

global pct

90.4

Film · 1967 · Films · 1960s

Wait Until Dark

Name: Wait Until Dark
Genre: Thriller
Released: 1967

Scored from 197 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

90.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

86.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

98.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

197 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A recently blinded woman in her Greenwich Village apartment becomes the target of three con men searching for a doll stuffed with heroin that her husband unknowingly brought home. As the criminals try to manipulate her with an elaborate ruse, she must rely on her wits and other senses to survive a deadly cat-and-mouse game.

Released in 1967, Wait Until Dark is a thriller film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 197 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 202 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,153 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is Wait Until Dark (1967) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 197
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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