Is Weekend at Bernie's actually good?

Weekend at Bernie's sits in the 44.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 44.8% of them.

How does Weekend at Bernie's compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Weekend at Bernie's lands in the 42.7% 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 Weekend at Bernie's's score based on?

122 calibrated reviewers stand behind Weekend at Bernie's's score.

1989

global pct

44.8

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

Weekend at Bernie's

Name: Weekend at Bernie's
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Released: 1989

Scored from 122 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

44.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

42.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

36.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

122 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Two low-level insurance employees uncover a fraud scheme and are invited to their boss Bernie's beach house for the weekend. When they arrive, they discover Bernie has been murdered, and to save their own lives they spend the weekend pretending the corpse is still alive in front of party guests.

Weekend at Bernie's (1989) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, comedy and crime genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.

The calibrated figure is built from 122 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 125 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them.

Is Weekend at Bernie's (1989) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 122
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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