Film · 1979 · Films · 1970s
Mad Max
Scored from 416 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
In a near-future Australia where law and order are crumbling, highway patrol officer Max Rockatansky chases a vicious motorcycle gang across desolate outback roads. After the gang targets his family in retaliation for the death of one of their own, Max abandons the badge and sets out on a brutal personal vendetta.
Mad Max is a 1979 action, adventure and science-fiction film.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them. 416 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 419 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 3,771 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 Mad Max 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 416.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
