Is Waking Ned Devine actually good?

Waking Ned Devine sits in the 85.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.1% of them.

How does Waking Ned Devine compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Waking Ned Devine lands in the 86.1% 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 Waking Ned Devine's score based on?

149 calibrated reviewers stand behind Waking Ned Devine's score.

1998

global pct

85.1

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

Waking Ned Devine

Name: Waking Ned Devine
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1998

Scored from 149 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

85.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

86.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

96.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

149 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In a tiny Irish village, two lifelong friends discover that a local man has won the national lottery but died of shock clutching the winning ticket. Determined not to let the fortune slip away, they hatch a scheme to convince the visiting lottery official that the deceased is still alive, drawing the entire community into the gentle conspiracy.

Released in 1998, Waking Ned Devine is a comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

The calibrated figure is built from 149 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 158 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,089 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is Waking Ned Devine (1998) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 149
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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