Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s
12 Monkeys
Scored from 628 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A time-traveling prisoner is sent back to 1990 to gather information about a deadly virus outbreak that will decimate mankind. Haunted by fragmented memories and uncertain about his mission, he encounters a psychiatrist and becomes entangled in a complex web of conspiracy and moral ambiguity.
12 Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction, thriller and drama film starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt. It runs 2h 9m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is R. Terry Gilliam directed it.
The calibrated figure is built from 628 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 650 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 12 Monkeys 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 628.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
