Is Xanadu actually good?

Xanadu sits in the 41.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 41.8% of them.

How does Xanadu compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Xanadu lands in the 39.2% 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 Xanadu's score based on?

220 calibrated reviewers stand behind Xanadu's score.

1980

global pct

41.8

Film · 1980 · Films · 1980s

Xanadu

Name: Xanadu
Genre: Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Released: 1980

Scored from 220 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

41.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

39.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

28.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

220 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A struggling Los Angeles artist meets a mysterious roller-skating muse who inspires him to team up with a former big-band musician to open a glittering nightclub called Xanadu. Blending pop, disco, and 1940s swing with romance and fantasy, the film follows their efforts to bring the club to life while the artist falls for the otherworldly woman.

Xanadu (1980) is a film IMDb files under the fantasy, musical and romance genres.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. 220 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 231 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,005 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.