Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s
Dazed and Confused
Scored from 355 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
On the last day of school in May 1976, a group of Texas high schoolers and incoming freshmen drift through hazing rituals, cruising, and a wild night of parties. As the seniors haze the rising freshmen and everyone hunts for the next keg, jock Randall 'Pink' Floyd weighs whether to sign his coach's anti-drug pledge while flirtations, fights, and stoned philosophizing unfold under the Aerosmith haze.
Dazed and Confused is a 1993 comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 355 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 382 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 9,783 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 Dazed and Confused 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 355.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
