Film · 1973 · Films · 1970s
Jesus Christ Superstar
Scored from 141 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
A film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice rock opera, staged as a troupe of young performers arriving in the Israeli desert to enact the final days of Jesus of Nazareth. Told largely from Judas Iscariot's conflicted perspective, it dramatizes Jesus's growing fame, his clashes with religious and Roman authorities, and the betrayal that leads to his trial and crucifixion.
Released in 1973, Jesus Christ Superstar is a drama, history and musical film.
The calibrated figure is built from 141 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 154 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 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 Jesus Christ Superstar 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 · 1970s (2,406 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 141.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
