Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s
Boogie Nights
Scored from 491 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A young drifter named Eddie Adams is taken under the wing of veteran pornographic director Jack Horner, launching a lucrative career as adult film star Dirk Diggler in the hedonistic 1970s-80s porn industry. As Eddie rises to fame and fortune, he navigates a glamorous yet destructive world alongside a colorful cast of performers and industry figures.
Boogie Nights (1997) is a film IMDb files under the drama and comedy genres. It was made in the United States. It runs 2h 35m. It is rated R. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore. It was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 6,025 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. 491 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 520 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 Boogie Nights 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 491.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
