Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s
Ghost in the Shell
Scored from 281 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
In a near-future world where humans routinely augment their bodies with cybernetics, Major Motoko Kusanagi, a full-body cyborg agent of Public Security Section 9, hunts an elusive hacker known as the Puppet Master. As her investigation deepens, she confronts unsettling questions about identity, consciousness, and what it means to be human when the line between mind and machine has dissolved.
Ghost in the Shell is a 1995 action, animation and crime film.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 281 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 291 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 Ghost in the Shell 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 281.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
