Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Man on the Moon
Scored from 366 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A biographical portrait of unconventional comedian Andy Kaufman, tracing his rise from offbeat club performer to television stardom on Taxi and his elaborately staged stunts, feuds, and alter egos that blurred the line between performance and reality. Jim Carrey stars as Kaufman, whose refusal to play by showbiz rules baffles audiences and colleagues alike, even as his health takes an unexpected turn.
Released in 1999, Man on the Moon is a biography, comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 366 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 389 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 on the Moon 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 366.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
