Film · 1975 · Films · 1970s
A Boy and His Dog
Scored from 123 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a young scavenger named Vic roams the desert with his telepathic dog Blood, who helps him hunt for food and women in exchange for protection. When Vic follows an alluring young woman into a bizarre underground society that has preserved a twisted version of pre-war Americana, he discovers their plans for him are far from welcoming.
A Boy and His Dog is a 1975 comedy, drama and science-fiction film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1 of whom clear the calibration test. 2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 123 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 125 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 A Boy and His Dog 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 · 1970s (2,406 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 123.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
