Film · 1963 · Films · 1960s
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Scored from 312 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
After witnessing a dying criminal's cryptic confession about a fortune buried under a 'big W' in a California park, a group of strangers race across the state to claim the loot for themselves. As greed escalates, their fragile alliances collapse into chaos, all while a weary police captain quietly tracks their every move.
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is a 1963 action, adventure and comedy film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them. 312 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 321 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 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 · 1960s (1,929 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 312.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
