Film · 1972 · Films · 1970s
Cries & Whispers
Scored from 188 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
In a turn-of-the-century Swedish manor, two sisters, Karin and Maria, gather to care for their third sister, Agnes, who is dying of cancer. As Agnes suffers, the women and their loyal maid Anna confront repressed memories, failed marriages, and the emotional distance that has grown between them. Ingmar Bergman's intimate chamber drama unfolds in saturated reds, exploring faith, mortality, and the impossibility of true connection.
Released in 1972, Cries & Whispers is a drama film.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them. 188 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 199 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 573 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Cries & Whispers 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 · 1970s (2,406 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 188.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
