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Le cercle rouge
Scored from 85 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
Corey, a thief released on parole from a Marseille prison, drives to Paris to collect an old debt and to set up a jewel robbery on the Place Vendome that a prison guard has sold him. On the way, Vogel, an escaped prisoner who slipped away from Commissaire Mattei during an overnight train transfer, hides in the boot of his car, and the two become partners with barely a word exchanged. For the shot the job requires they bring in Jansen, a disgraced former police marksman drinking himself apart. Mattei, pressed by a superior who holds that all men are guilty, works the Paris underworld for a route back to them. Jean-Pierre Melville's crime film, with Alain Delon and Bourvil, is built around a near-wordless half-hour heist.
Le cercle rouge is a 1970 crime, drama and thriller film. It was made in France. It plays in French. It runs 2h 20m.
Only 85 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 87 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 393 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Le cercle rouge 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 85.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
