Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Scored from 709 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Indiana Jones is deceived into traveling to India on a rescue mission, where he discovers a conspiracy involving a mystical stone and an underground cult. Stranded with new companions, he must navigate ancient temples, deadly traps, and dark rituals to survive and rescue kidnapped children.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 adventure, action and fantasy film directed by Steven Spielberg. Its certificate is PG. It runs 1h 58m. Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw and Ke Huy Quan head the billed cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 21,527 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 709 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 728 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Temple of Doom 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 709.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
