Film · 1982 · Films · 1980s
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Scored from 575 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
A young boy named Elliott befriends an alien who has been accidentally left behind on Earth. As government agents close in to capture the extraterrestrial, Elliott and his friends work to help the alien contact his home planet.
Steven Spielberg directed E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a science fiction, family and adventure film from 1982. It is rated PG. It was made in the United States. The runtime is 115 minutes. It stars Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore and Robert MacNaughton.
3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 575 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 603 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 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 575.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
