Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Scored from 138 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
In 19th-century Tuscany, two pairs of mismatched young lovers flee into an enchanted forest, where a meddlesome fairy king and his sprite Puck use a love-inducing flower that scrambles their affections. Nearby, a troupe of bumbling amateur actors rehearses a play, and their weaver Bottom is transformed and drawn into the jealous quarrel between the fairy king and queen. Adapted from Shakespeare's comedy.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, fantasy and romance genres.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 138 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 144 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 Midsummer Night's Dream 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 138.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
