Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s
Independence Day
Scored from 822 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
When massive alien spacecraft appear above major Earth cities, humanity faces its greatest threat. A fighter pilot, a computer expert, and the U.S. President must lead a desperate global effort to survive the alien onslaught and unite the world against the invaders.
Independence Day is a 1996 science fiction, action and adventure film directed by Roland Emmerich. It runs 2h 25m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is PG-13. Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum head the billed cast.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 822 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 836 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 Independence Day 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 822.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
