Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s
Labyrinth
Scored from 387 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Frustrated teenager Sarah wishes her infant half-brother away to the Goblin King, only to instantly regret it when he actually takes the baby. Given thirteen hours to solve an enormous, ever-shifting labyrinth and reach the Goblin City, she befriends a band of unlikely creatures while the seductive, manipulative Jareth tries to derail her quest.
Labyrinth is a 1986 adventure, family and fantasy film.
3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 387 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 428 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Labyrinth 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 387.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
