Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s
Mask
Scored from 85 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Rocky Dennis is a bright, wisecracking sixteen-year-old in Azusa, California, living with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a rare disorder that has thickened and distorted the bones of his skull. His mother, Rusty, is a fixture of the local biker scene with a drug habit and a flat refusal to let doctors, school administrators or strangers write her son off, and she strong-arms the district into enrolling him in a mainstream high school. A summer job at a camp for blind children brings Rocky close to Diana, who knows him only by his voice and touch. Peter Bogdanovich's drama is based on the real Roy L. Dennis, with Cher as Rusty and Eric Stoltz under Michael Westmore's prosthetics.
Mask (1985) is a film IMDb files under the biography and drama genres. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is PG-13. It runs 2h.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. Only 85 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 85 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,131 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Mask 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 85.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
