Film · 1992 · Films · 1990s
Batman Returns
Scored from 684 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
In Gotham City, Batman faces two formidable adversaries: the deformed Penguin, who emerges from the sewers seeking revenge and power, and the enigmatic Catwoman, a mysterious vigilante with her own agenda. As these villains threaten the city, Batman must navigate complex moral challenges while protecting Gotham.
Released in 1992, Batman Returns is an action, crime and thriller film. Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito and Michelle Pfeiffer head the billed cast. Its certificate is PG-13. Tim Burton directed it. It runs 2h 6m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 684 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 711 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 18,084 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.
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 Returns 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 684.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
