Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s
Deep Impact
Scored from 462 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A comet is discovered on a collision course with Earth. As the world faces the impending catastrophe, various characters—including a young astronomer, a news reporter, and a former astronaut—struggle with personal and global consequences in the face of potential extinction.
Deep Impact is a 1998 disaster, science fiction and drama film starring Téa Leoni, Robert Duvall and Elijah Wood. Its certificate is PG-13. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 2h. Mimi Leder directed it.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 7,505 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 462 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 474 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Deep Impact 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 462.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
