Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Dogma
Scored from 580 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Two fallen angels attempt to exploit a loophole in Catholic doctrine to escape their divine punishment and return to Heaven. Unaware of the catastrophic consequences, a group of unlikely heroes must stop them before it's too late.
Dogma is a 1999 comedy, fantasy and adventure film starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Linda Fiorentino. Its certificate is R. Kevin Smith directed it. It runs 2h 10m. Inside comedy it is classed as Satire. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 580 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 605 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 17,102 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 Dogma 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 580.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
