Film · 1962 · Films · 1960s
Advise & Consent
Scored from 74 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Otto Preminger's Washington drama, from Allen Drury's novel, follows the Senate confirmation fight over Robert Leffingwell, the liberal intellectual an ailing president has nominated as Secretary of State. Southern veteran Seab Cooley opposes him bitterly, charging that Leffingwell concealed a Communist association in his past, while Majority Leader Bob Munson counts votes. The subcommittee hearings fall to Utah's young Senator Brigham Anderson, who is soon targeted by blackmail over a secret from his wartime service. Preminger moves between hearing rooms, cloakrooms and private deals to weigh what each man will trade for a nomination.
Advise & Consent (1962) is a film IMDb files under the drama and thriller genres. The runtime is 139 minutes. It was made in the United States.
Only 74 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. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 129 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Advise & Consent 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 · 1960s (1,929 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 74.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
