Film · 1916 · Films · 1910s
Intolerance
Scored from 120 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1910s (6 peers).
Summary
D. W. Griffith's silent epic intercuts four stories set centuries apart, each about harm done by the righteous. In modern America a young couple, the Dear One and the Boy, are caught between factory owners, moral reformers and a wrongful murder charge; in ancient Babylon a Mountain Girl watches Prince Belshazzar's city besieged by the armies of Cyrus; in Judea the ministry of Christ meets the Pharisees; and in 1572 Paris, Catherine de' Medici sets the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in motion. Griffith links the strands with a recurring image of a woman rocking a cradle, cutting between them faster as each nears its crisis. Its Babylonian court was among the largest sets of the silent era.
Intolerance (1916) is a film IMDb files under the drama and history genres. The runtime is 197 minutes. Its listed language is Silent (English intertitles). It was made in the United States.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 120 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 121 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 5 1910s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Intolerance 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 · 1910s (6 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 120.
Cohort: Films · 1910s
