Film · 1982 · Films · 1980s
Blade Runner
Scored from 1,383 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
In a dystopian future Los Angeles, retired police officer Rick Deckard is brought back to hunt down a group of illegal replicants—artificial beings created to perform dangerous work—who have escaped and are living in hiding among humans. As Deckard tracks them down, he becomes increasingly uncertain about the nature of humanity and consciousness.
Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction, noir and thriller film. It is rated R. It was directed by Ridley Scott. The runtime is 117 minutes. It was made in the United States. It stars Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Sean Young.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 22,404 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. 1,383 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 1,459 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Blade Runner 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 1,383.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
