Film · 1990 · Films · 1990s
Kindergarten Cop
Scored from 158 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A tough LAPD detective goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher in a small Oregon town to track down a dangerous drug dealer and locate his ex-wife and young son, who hold key evidence. Wildly out of his depth with a classroom of unruly five-year-olds, he slowly bonds with the kids and a fellow teacher while the criminal closes in on the family he is trying to protect.
Kindergarten Cop is a 1990 action, comedy and crime film. Inside comedy it is classed as Action Comedy.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 8,602 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 158 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 163 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Kindergarten Cop 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 158.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
