RankquantRQ
Whatever Works (2009) poster
2009
global pct
26.7

Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s

Whatever Works

Scored from 173 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

26.7%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
29.4%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
10.4%
AI-adjusted percentile
173 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Boris Yellnikoff, a misanthropic former physics professor in New York, grudgingly takes in Melodie, a naive young runaway from the South. Their unlikely arrangement turns into a marriage, until Melodie's conservative mother and father arrive from Mississippi and find their own lives upended by the city. Woody Allen's comedy follows the tangled romantic reshuffling that follows, arguing that happiness comes from whatever works.

Whatever Works (2009) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and romance genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Romcom.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,180 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 173 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 175 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Whatever Works (2009) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers
173

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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