Is Wild Things actually good?

Wild Things sits in the 51.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 51.1% of them.

How does Wild Things compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Wild Things lands in the 49.4% 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 Wild Things's score based on?

301 calibrated reviewers stand behind Wild Things's score.

1998

global pct

51.1

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

Wild Things

Name: Wild Things
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1998

Scored from 301 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

51.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

49.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

54.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

301 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In a wealthy Florida town, a high school guidance counselor is accused of sexual assault by two students from very different backgrounds. As a detective investigates and the case heads to court, nothing is quite what it seems, with twists revealing layers of deception and conspiracy among the players.

Wild Things (1998) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and mystery genres.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 301 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 316 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,605 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.