Is West Side Story actually good?

West Side Story sits in the 78.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 78.1% of them.

How does West Side Story compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2020s, West Side Story lands in the 83.6% 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 West Side Story's score based on?

646 calibrated reviewers stand behind West Side Story's score.

2021

global pct

78.1

Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s

West Side Story

Name: West Side Story
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical
Released: 2021

Scored from 646 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).

78.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

83.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles

96.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

646 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the classic musical, set in 1957 New York City. As rival street gangs the Jets and the Sharks battle for control of their rapidly changing Upper West Side neighborhood, Tony, a former Jet, falls in love with Maria, the sister of the Sharks' leader Bernardo, igniting a forbidden romance that strains loyalties on both sides.

Released in 2021, West Side Story is a crime, drama and musical film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 646 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 665 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 837 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is West Side Story (2021) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 646
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2020s

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