Is WarGames actually good?

WarGames sits in the 84.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 84.0% of them.

How does WarGames compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, WarGames lands in the 82.3% 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 WarGames's score based on?

217 calibrated reviewers stand behind WarGames's score.

1983

global pct

84.0

Film · 1983 · Films · 1980s

WarGames

Name: WarGames
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Released: 1983

Scored from 217 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

84.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

82.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

97.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

217 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A teenage computer whiz accidentally hacks into a U.S. military supercomputer while searching for unreleased video games. Mistaking the system's nuclear war simulation for a game, he nearly triggers World War III and must race to convince the machine to stand down before its countdown reaches launch.

WarGames (1983) is a film IMDb files under the action, drama and science-fiction genres.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,893 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 217 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 222 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.