Is War Dogs actually good?

War Dogs sits in the 59.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 59.2% of them.

How does War Dogs compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, War Dogs lands in the 66.1% 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 War Dogs's score based on?

277 calibrated reviewers stand behind War Dogs's score.

2016

global pct

59.2

Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s

War Dogs

Name: War Dogs
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime
Released: 2016

Scored from 277 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

59.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

66.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

77.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

277 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Two twenty-something friends from Miami Beach exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. military contracts. Starting small, they soon land a 300 million dollar deal to arm America's allies in Afghanistan, drawing them into a dangerous world of international arms dealing that quickly spirals beyond their control.

War Dogs (2016) is a film IMDb files under the biography, comedy and crime genres. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.

277 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 280 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 847 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is War Dogs (2016) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 277
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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