Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
10 Things I Hate About You
Scored from 479 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Kat Stratford, an independent high schooler, refuses to date due to her father's strict rules. When her younger sister Bianca wants to date, their father's archaic rule requires Kat to date first. Charming bad boy Patrick Verona accepts a bet to win Kat's heart, leading to a genuine romance that challenges both of their preconceptions.
Released in 1999, 10 Things I Hate About You is a comedy and romance film. Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger and Joseph Gordon-Levitt head the billed cast. Inside comedy it is classed as Romcom. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is PG-13. It runs 1h 37m. Gil Junger directed it.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 216,432 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 479 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 518 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where 10 Things I Hate About You lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1990s (4,082 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 479.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
