Film · 1962 · Films · 1960s
Dr. No
Scored from 521 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
British secret agent James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent, a mystery that leads him to the mysterious Dr. Julius No and his secret island lair. Bond uncovers Dr. No's plot to disrupt international space operations.
Released in 1962, Dr. No is an action, adventure and thriller film. Terence Young directed it, with Sean Connery, Ursula Andress and Joseph Wiseman in the cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. It runs 1h 50m.
The calibrated figure is built from 521 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 531 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,466 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 Dr. No 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 521.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
