Film · 1982 · Films · 1980s
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Scored from 288 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
A group of Southern California high school students navigate the social and romantic challenges of a single school year at Ridgemont High. Sophomore Stacy Hamilton seeks experience in love, her brother Brad juggles fast-food jobs, and surfer Jeff Spicoli wages a running war with his strict history teacher Mr. Hand.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and drama genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4,664 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 288 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 296 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 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 288.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
