Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s
Léon: The Professional
Scored from 991 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A professional assassin known as Léon reluctantly takes in a young orphaned girl named Mathilda after her family is executed by a corrupt DEA agent. As the two form an unlikely bond, Mathilda becomes his protégé while seeking revenge on those responsible for her loss.
Léon: The Professional is a 1994 action, crime and thriller film. It stars Jean Reno, Natalie Portman and Gary Oldman. It is rated R. It was directed by Luc Besson. It was made in France. The runtime is 110 minutes.
991 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 1,076 reviewers with at least two reviews each 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 Léon: The Professional 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 991.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
