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Edward Scissorhands
Scored from 574 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Tim Burton's suburban fairy tale concerns Edward, an artificial young man left unfinished when his inventor died, leaving him with long scissor blades where his hands should be. He lives alone in a Gothic mansion on the hill above a pastel cul-de-sac until Peg Boggs, an Avon saleswoman who calls at the house, takes him home to her husband, son and teenage daughter Kim. The neighbours adopt him as a novelty, delighted by the hedge sculptures, dog grooming and haircuts he produces at speed, and Edward falls quietly in love with Kim, who already has a possessive boyfriend. Framed as an old woman's bedtime story, the film sets his gentleness against the street's quick slide from fascination to suspicion.
Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 fantasy, drama and romance film. It was made in the United States. It is rated PG-13. It stars Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder and Dianne Wiest. The runtime is 105 minutes. It was directed by Tim Burton.
574 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 618 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 39,916 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Edward Scissorhands 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 574.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
