Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s
Kiss the Girls
Scored from 171 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
After his niece is abducted, forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina to hunt a serial kidnapper who calls himself Casanova and collects women he considers exceptional. He joins forces with Kate McTiernan, a doctor who escaped the killer's hidden lair, as their investigation reveals the case may be larger and closer to home than it first appears.
Released in 1997, Kiss the Girls is a crime, drama and mystery film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,413 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 171 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 174 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 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 Kiss the Girls 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 171.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
