Film · 1979 · Films · 1970s
Manhattan
Scored from 246 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
A twice-divorced, 42-year-old New York television writer drifts through a romance with a 17-year-old high school student while pining for the neurotic mistress of his married best friend. As he weighs comfort against passion, his choices about love, honesty, and what actually matters force a reckoning amid the black-and-white skyline of Manhattan.
Manhattan is a 1979 comedy, drama and romance film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 246 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 255 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Manhattan 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 246.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
