Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Scored from 487 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A journalist and his attorney travel to Las Vegas with a trunk full of drugs, ostensibly to cover a motorcycle race. Instead, they embark on a surreal, drug-fueled odyssey through the city, encountering increasingly bizarre situations and confronting the dark underbelly of Las Vegas.
Released in 1998, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a comedy and drama film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 58m and carries an R certificate. Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro and Tobey Maguire head the billed cast. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy. Terry Gilliam directed it.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 16,217 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 487 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 514 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 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 487.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
