Is Danton actually good?

Danton sits in the 88.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 88.9% of them. That figure is a rank, not a star average: each reviewer's score is re-centred on their own rating history before anything is compared, so a generous grader and a harsh one count the same.

How does Danton compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Danton lands in the 88.2% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Danton's score based on?

36 reviewers cleared the calibration test for Danton — meaning their rating history varies enough to place a personal baseline. Reviewers who rate everything the same carry no information and are excluded rather than averaged in.

How is the Danton score calculated?

Every review is scored relative to the reviewer's own average rather than taken at face value, then each calibrated reviewer is weighted equally and the result is expressed as a percentile against the full corpus. The output is a rank among peers, which is why it is published as a percentile and never as a star rating.

1983

global pct

88.9

Film · 1983 · Films · 1980s

Danton

Name: Danton
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: 1983
Duration: 2 h 16 min

Scored from 36 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

88.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

88.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

91.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

36 calibrated reviewers, thin samples pulled to the mean

Summary

Paris, spring 1794: Georges Danton (Gérard Depardieu) returns from his country retreat to a capital gripped by the Terror, determined to halt the guillotine and break the Committee of Public Safety that feeds it. His former ally Maximilien Robespierre (Wojciech Pszoniak), ailing and rigidly certain, treats the campaign as a threat to the Revolution itself, and the two circle each other through salons and committee rooms until the quarrel reaches the Revolutionary Tribunal. Andrzej Wajda's French-Polish historical drama adapts Stanisława Przybyszewska's play The Danton Case, casting French actors as Danton's faction and Polish ones as Robespierre's. Made soon after martial law was imposed in Poland, it was widely read at home as a study of dissent under an ideological state.

Danton (1983) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and history genres. Its listed language is French. It was made in France. The runtime is 136 minutes.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 98 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 36 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 36 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.

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 Danton 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 36.