Film · 1971 · Films · 1970s
A Clockwork Orange
Scored from 1,192 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 dystopian future, the ultra-violent Alex and his gang commit brutal crimes until his arrest. Subjected to the controversial Ludovico Technique—a behavioral modification experiment—Alex becomes psychologically reprogrammed to abhor violence. The film explores the tension between free will and forced morality as he faces the consequences of his new condition.
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 science fiction, crime and thriller film starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee and Michael Bates. The runtime is 136 minutes. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Stanley Kubrick directed it.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 1,192 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,284 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 Clockwork Orange 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 1,192.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
