Film · 1992 · Films · 1990s
Man Bites Dog
Scored from 160 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A Belgian film crew follows a charismatic, casually monstrous serial killer named Ben as he goes about his daily routine of murder, robbery, and pontificating on art and life. As the documentarians grow closer to their subject, they become increasingly complicit in his crimes, blurring the line between observer and participant in this pitch-black mockumentary satire of media violence.
Man Bites Dog is a 1992 comedy, crime and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Mockumentary.
The calibrated figure is built from 160 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 167 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,338 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.
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 Man Bites Dog 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 160.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
