RankquantRQ
West Side Story (1961) poster
1961
global pct
74.7

Film · 1961 · Films · 1960s

West Side Story

Scored from 390 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

74.7%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
67.0%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
94.5%
AI-adjusted percentile
390 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1950s New York City, tensions escalate between two rival street gangs: the white working-class Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks. Amid the turf war, Tony, a former Jet, falls in love at first sight with Maria, the sister of the Sharks' leader Bernardo. Their forbidden romance unfolds against a backdrop of prejudice and gang violence, told through song and dance.

Released in 1961, West Side Story is a crime, drama and musical film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 5,296 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 390 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 407 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them.

Is West Side Story (1961) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers
390

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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