Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s
King of the Hill
Scored from 42 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Steven Soderbergh's adaptation of A. E. Hotchner's memoir follows Aaron Kurlander, a quick-witted twelve-year-old sharing one room at the shabby Empire Hotel in St. Louis in 1933. The Depression takes his family apart piece by piece: his younger brother is packed off to relatives, his mother enters a sanatorium with tuberculosis, and his German immigrant father takes a travelling salesman's job, leaving Aaron alone with an overdue room bill, a bellboy waiting to lock him out, and schoolmates he lies to about being rich. He gets by on invention and nerve, helped by an older neighbour, Lester, and a soused resident down the hall, Mr Mungo. Jesse Bradford stars, with Jeroen Krabbé and Spalding Gray.
King of the Hill (1993) is a film IMDb files under the drama and history genres. The runtime is 110 minutes. It is rated PG-13. It was made in the United States.
Only 42 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 42 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 King of the Hill 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 42.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
