Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Scored from 620 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
In 1938, archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) learns that his estranged father, the medievalist Henry Jones Sr. (Sean Connery), has vanished in Venice while chasing the Holy Grail, having first posted home the diary of his research. With Marcus Brody and the Austrian art historian Elsa Schneider, Indy follows the trail from Venetian catacombs to a castle on the Austrian border and on to the Middle East, shadowed by Nazi agents and by the wealthy American who financed the search. Reunited, father and son bicker their way across Europe while the Grail's guardians and its trials wait at the end of the road. Steven Spielberg's third Indiana Jones adventure opens with a prologue set in Indy's Utah boyhood.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 action, adventure and fantasy film starring Harrison Ford, Sean Connery and Alison Doody. Its certificate is PG-13. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Steven Spielberg directed it. It runs 2h 7m.
The calibrated figure is built from 620 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 637 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 23,250 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them.
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 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 620.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
