Film · 1965 · Films · 1960s
Doctor Zhivago
Scored from 287 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Spanning the final years of Tsarist Russia through the Revolution and Civil War, this epic follows Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet torn between his devoted wife Tonya and his passionate love for Lara, a woman whose life keeps intersecting with his amid the upheaval. As war and politics tear the country apart, Yuri struggles to preserve his art, his humanity, and the loves that define him.
Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 drama, romance and war film.
287 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 294 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Doctor Zhivago 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 · 1960s (1,929 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 287.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
