Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s
Get Shorty
Scored from 162 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark with a passion for movies, travels to Los Angeles to collect a debt from a struggling B-movie producer. Drawn into the world of Hollywood, Chili discovers that the film business runs on the same hustle and intimidation as his old line of work, and he sets out to pitch his own story while juggling mobsters and a leading-lady scream queen.
Get Shorty is a 1995 comedy, crime and thriller film. Inside comedy it is classed as Action Comedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 162 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 164 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 4,081 other films from the 1990s 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 Get Shorty 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 162.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
