Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s
Carlito's Way
Scored from 321 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Brian De Palma's New York crime drama, adapted from Edwin Torres's novels. In 1975, Puerto Rican heroin dealer Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) walks out of prison five years into a thirty-year sentence, sprung on a technicality by his cocaine-addled lawyer and friend David Kleinfeld (Sean Penn). Carlito renounces the life, takes over a nightclub, and sets a target of seventy-five thousand dollars to buy into a car-rental business in the Bahamas, while trying to win back Gail (Penelope Ann Miller), the dancer he abandoned. Kleinfeld's debts to imprisoned mobsters and the goading of a young uptown hood called Benny Blanco keep pulling him back toward the street code he is trying to leave behind.
Carlito's Way (1993) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and thriller genres. Its certificate is R. It runs 2h 24m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 321 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 340 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Carlito's Way 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 321.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
