Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s
Apollo 13
Scored from 382 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Ron Howard's dramatisation of NASA's April 1970 lunar mission. Astronaut Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) is moved up to command Apollo 13, then loses command module pilot Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise) to a measles exposure days before launch, with rookie Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) taking the seat beside Fred Haise (Bill Paxton). Two days out, an oxygen tank ruptures and cripples the service module, turning a Moon landing into a survival problem of dwindling power, water and carbon-dioxide scrubbing aboard a lunar module never designed as a lifeboat. In Houston, flight director Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) and the grounded Mattingly improvise the procedures needed to get the crew home while Marilyn Lovell (Kathleen Quinlan) waits.
Apollo 13 is a 1995 adventure, drama and history film. Its certificate is PG. It runs 2h 20m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 8,640 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 382 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 395 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 Apollo 13 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 382.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
