Film · 1971 · Films · 1970s
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Scored from 158 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 remote Pacific Northwest mining town at the turn of the 20th century, a small-time gambler named John McCabe arrives and sets up a brothel in partnership with a savvy, opium-using madam, Mrs. Miller, whose business sense makes the venture thrive. When a powerful mining company tries to buy them out, McCabe's refusal to sell brings hired gunmen to the town.
Released in 1971, McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a drama and western film.
The calibrated figure is built from 158 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 161 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 544 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 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 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 158.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
