Is You've Got Mail actually good?

You've Got Mail sits in the 46.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 46.1% of them.

How does You've Got Mail compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, You've Got Mail lands in the 43.9% 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 You've Got Mail's score based on?

424 calibrated reviewers stand behind You've Got Mail's score.

1998

global pct

46.1

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

You've Got Mail

Name: You've Got Mail
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1998

Scored from 424 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

46.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

43.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

37.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

424 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Kathleen Kelly runs a cozy children's bookstore in New York, while Joe Fox is the heir to a corporate megastore chain moving in around the corner. Bitter rivals in person, the two are unknowingly falling in love through anonymous emails as online pen pals. When Joe discovers the woman behind the screen name is his business enemy, he must decide how to reveal himself without losing her.

You've Got Mail (1998) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and romance genres. Its comedy subtype is Romcom.

424 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 439 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is You've Got Mail (1998) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 424
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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