Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s
Cutthroat Island
Scored from 160 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Morgan Adams, the daughter of a slain pirate captain, inherits one third of a treasure map and must team up with a charming thief and scholar to assemble the full map and find her father's hidden fortune. Pursued across the Caribbean by her ruthless uncle Dawg Brown, who holds another piece of the map, she fights to claim both the treasure and her revenge.
Released in 1995, Cutthroat Island is an action, adventure and comedy film.
The calibrated figure is built from 160 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 170 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 704 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.
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 Cutthroat Island 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 160.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
