Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s
Batman
Scored from 876 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
In Gotham City, Batman confronts a mysterious criminal known as The Joker, who emerges as a powerful force terrorizing the city. The Dark Knight races to stop the villain's reign of terror while uncovering a dangerous connection to his own past.
Batman is a 1989 action, crime and drama film directed by Tim Burton. Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Kim Basinger head the billed cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is PG-13. It runs 2h 6m.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 876 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 908 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 Batman 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 876.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
