Film · 1975 · Films · 1970s
Barry Lyndon
Scored from 457 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
Redmond Barry, a headstrong Irish youth with no fortune, flees home after a duel over his cousin Nora and spends the Seven Years War drifting from the British army into the Prussian one, then into partnership with a gambler, the Chevalier de Balibari. Working the card tables of Europe, he courts and marries the wealthy Countess of Lyndon, takes her name and sets about buying himself an English peerage, while her son Lord Bullingdon grows into an implacable enemy. Stanley Kubrick adapted Thackeray's 1844 novel into a three-hour period film in two parts, its omniscient narrator announcing each reversal before it arrives. Much of it was shot by natural and candlelight; Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson star.
Barry Lyndon (1975) is a film IMDb files under the drama, history and adventure genres. It stars Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson and Patrick Magee. It is rated R. It was made in the United Kingdom. The runtime is 185 minutes. It was directed by Stanley Kubrick.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,306 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 457 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 479 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Barry Lyndon 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 457.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
