Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s
Clue
Scored from 365 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Six strangers given pseudonyms are summoned to a remote New England mansion in 1954, where their mysterious host reveals he has been blackmailing them all. When the lights go out and bodies start dropping, the guests and the butler must figure out who among them is the killer before the police arrive.
Clue (1985) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, crime and mystery genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.
The calibrated figure is built from 365 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 380 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 5,411 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 Clue 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 365.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
