Film · 1971 · Films · 1970s
A New Leaf
Scored from 72 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
Henry Graham is a middle-aged Manhattan bachelor who has spent the last of his inherited capital on cars, clubs and tailoring, and whose lawyer informs him he is broke. His uncle lends him enough to keep up appearances on punishing terms — full repayment within six weeks — and his butler proposes the only remedy available to a man with no skills: marry money. Henry settles on Henrietta Lowell, a shy, clumsy heiress who teaches botany and hopes to identify an undiscovered fern, and privately concludes that a widower's position would suit him better than a husband's. Elaine May wrote, directed and co-starred in this black comedy opposite Walter Matthau.
A New Leaf (1971) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and romance genres. It was made in the United States. The runtime is 102 minutes. It is rated G.
2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 72 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 76 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 New Leaf 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 72.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
