Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s
Bottle Rocket
Scored from 166 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Anthony, recently released from a voluntary stay at a psychiatric hospital, reunites with his eccentric friend Dignan, who has mapped out an ambitious 75-year plan involving small-time heists. Joined by their wealthy, reluctant friend Bob, the trio embark on a bumbling crime spree, during which Anthony falls for a motel housekeeper named Inez. The film follows their amateurish exploits and the strain it puts on their friendships.
Bottle Rocket is a 1996 comedy, crime and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 166 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 173 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,149 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 Bottle Rocket 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 166.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
