Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s
Beautiful Girls
Scored from 139 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A struggling New York pianist returns to his small Massachusetts hometown for his ten-year high school reunion, where he reconnects with old friends wrestling with stalled lives, romantic confusion, and the gap between youthful expectations and adult reality. His perspective shifts after an unexpected friendship with a precocious thirteen-year-old neighbor forces him to reconsider what he really wants.
Beautiful Girls (1996) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and romance genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 789 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 139 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 146 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 Beautiful Girls 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 139.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
