Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s
In the Name of the Father
Scored from 175 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Jim Sheridan's drama, adapted from Gerry Conlon's memoir Proved Innocent, opens in 1974 Belfast, where Gerry is a petty thief stripping lead from roofs until he is mistaken for a sniper and the IRA turns on him; his father Giuseppe sends him to London. Living in a squat there with his friend Paul Hill, he is arrested after the Guildford pub bombings and held under new emergency powers, where beatings and threats against his father produce false confessions. The two are convicted with the rest of the Guildford Four, while Giuseppe and other relatives are jailed as the Maguire Seven. Father and son are put in the same cell, and solicitor Gareth Peirce starts digging for the evidence police withheld.
In the Name of the Father (1993) is a film IMDb files under the biography, crime and drama genres. The runtime is 133 minutes. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 175 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 179 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,586 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 In the Name of the Father 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 175.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
