Film · 1974 · Films · 1970s
Blazing Saddles
Scored from 400 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
In the Old West, a corrupt politician schemes to drive residents off their land to clear the way for a railroad, appointing a Black sheriff named Bart to the frontier town of Rock Ridge in hopes the townspeople will revolt. Teaming up with washed-up gunslinger Jim, the Waco Kid, Bart must outwit the villains and win over the bigoted townsfolk in Mel Brooks's anarchic, fourth-wall-breaking Western satire.
Blazing Saddles is a 1974 comedy and western film. Its comedy subtype is Satire.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 10,357 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 400 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 412 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Blazing Saddles 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 · 1970s (2,406 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 400.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
