Film · 1973 · Films · 1970s
Mean Streets
Scored from 298 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
In New York's Little Italy, a young small-time hood torn between his Catholic guilt and his ambitions in the local mob tries to protect his reckless, debt-ridden friend while navigating his uncle's expectations and a secret relationship with his cousin. Friendship, loyalty, and street-level violence collide as he struggles to reconcile faith with the criminal world around him.
Mean Streets is a 1973 crime, drama and thriller film.
The calibrated figure is built from 298 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 303 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, 2,108 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 Mean Streets 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 298.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
