Film · 1972 · Films · 1970s
Last Tango in Paris
Scored from 176 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
In Paris, a middle-aged American widower reeling from his wife's suicide encounters a young Frenchwoman engaged to a filmmaker, and the two embark on an anonymous, emotionally raw sexual affair in an empty apartment, agreeing to share no names or pasts. As the encounters deepen, the boundaries he insists on begin to collapse, forcing a reckoning between escape, intimacy, and grief.
Released in 1972, Last Tango in Paris is a drama and romance film.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus. 176 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 180 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,134 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Last Tango in Paris 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 · 1970s (2,406 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 176.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
