Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s
Babe
Scored from 202 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Babe is an orphaned piglet won as a guessing-game prize at a county fair by the taciturn Australian sheep farmer Arthur Hoggett (James Cromwell), who intends to fatten him for Christmas. Taken in by Fly, a border collie with a litter of pups, the pig picks up the family trade and decides he would rather be a sheepdog than dinner, herding the flock by asking politely instead of snarling at it. That offends Fly's mate Rex and upsets the farm's strict order of who does what. Chris Noonan's live-action film, adapted from Dick King-Smith's novel The Sheep-Pig, uses animatronics and digital mouth work to give the animals speech, with a chorus of singing mice announcing the chapters.
Babe (1995) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and family genres. It runs 1h 31m and carries a G certificate. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. Its country of origin is listed as Australia.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 202 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 208 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 Babe 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 202.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
