Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s
Crash
Scored from 236 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
After surviving a head-on car collision, a television producer is drawn into a clandestine subculture of people who find erotic excitement in staging and reenacting auto accidents. Led by a charismatic scar-covered guru obsessed with celebrity crashes, he and his wife sink deeper into a dangerous fusion of sex, technology, and twisted metal. Directed by David Cronenberg and adapted from J.G. Ballard's novel.
Crash (1996) is a film IMDb files under the drama genre.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 236 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 243 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,847 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 Crash 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 236.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
