Film · 1970 · Films · 1970s
Airport
Scored from 192 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
During a fierce snowstorm, a major Midwestern airport struggles to stay operational while its manager juggles a stranded jet blocking a key runway, marital troubles, and pressure from neighbors over noise. Meanwhile, a troubled passenger boards a Rome-bound flight carrying a bomb, forcing the crew to confront disaster at altitude.
Airport is a 1970 action, drama and thriller film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 478 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 192 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 195 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 Airport 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 192.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
