Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s
Dune
Scored from 693 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
On the desert planet Arrakis, young Paul Atreides and his family are tasked with overseeing the mining of melange, a valuable spice. When betrayal leads to his father's death and his family's fall from power, Paul must navigate political intrigue and his emerging abilities to survive in the harsh desert.
Dune is a 1984 science fiction, drama and adventure film directed by David Lynch. Kyle MacLachlan, Sean Young and Patrick Stewart head the billed cast. Its certificate is PG. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 2h 17m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 7,290 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 693 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 718 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 3,140 other films from the 1980s 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 Dune 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 693.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
