Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s
Good Will Hunting
Scored from 853 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Will Hunting is a janitor at MIT with an extraordinary gift for mathematics who is arrested and faces jail time. To avoid prosecution, he agrees to work with a psychology professor and see a therapist. As he builds a relationship with his therapist, Will begins to confront his painful past and discover his potential.
Good Will Hunting is a 1997 drama and romance film starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Robin Williams. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 2h 6m. Gus Van Sant directed it.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 853 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 912 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 14,032 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Good Will Hunting 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 853.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
