Film · 1991 · Films · 1990s
Let Him Have It
Scored from 26 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Derek Bentley is a nineteen-year-old in post-war south London with epilepsy and the reading age of a child, who falls in with Christopher Craig, a sixteen-year-old neighbour who idolises gangster films and carries a revolver. On a November night in 1952 the pair climb onto the roof of a Croydon warehouse to break in, are cornered by police, and a constable is shot - after Bentley, already held by an officer, is alleged to have called out the ambiguous words 'Let him have it, Chris'. Peter Medak's British true-crime drama follows both families through the arrest and the trial, which turns on that sentence and on a doctrine making both boys answerable for the killing, with Christopher Eccleston as Bentley.
Let Him Have It (1991) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and history genres. It runs 1h 55m and carries a 15 certificate. It was made in the United Kingdom.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 26 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 26 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 75 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 Let Him Have It 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 26.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
