Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Blast from the Past
Scored from 216 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
In 1962, a paranoid inventor mistakenly believes a nuclear bomb has detonated and seals his pregnant wife in an elaborate fallout shelter for 35 years. Their son Adam, born and raised underground, finally emerges into 1990s Los Angeles to gather supplies, where his old-fashioned manners and naivete collide with modern life. He meets a jaded young woman named Eve who reluctantly helps him navigate the surface world.
Released in 1999, Blast from the Past is a comedy, drama and romance film. Inside comedy it is classed as Romcom.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 216 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 224 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,442 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Blast from the Past 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 216.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
