Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s
A Bronx Tale
Scored from 215 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
On 187th Street in the Belmont section of the Bronx in 1960, nine-year-old Calogero Anello watches from his stoop as the local boss Sonny shoots a man over a parking space, then refuses to name him for the police. Sonny repays the silence by taking the boy in around the social club, while Calogero's father Lorenzo, a city bus driver, insists that the working man is the real tough guy. Eight years on, the teenage Calogero runs with a crew of neighbourhood kids and falls for Jane, a Black girl from the other side of the divide, just as racial tempers on the block are hardening. Robert De Niro's directorial debut adapts Chazz Palminteri's one-man play, with Palminteri as Sonny and De Niro as Lorenzo.
Released in 1993, A Bronx Tale is a crime and drama film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is R. It runs 2h 1m.
The calibrated figure is built from 215 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 227 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.
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 Bronx Tale 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 215.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
