Film · 1975 · Films · 1970s
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Scored from 628 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
King Arthur and his knights embark on a quest to find the Holy Grail, encountering absurd medieval obstacles and ridiculous characters along the way. The film is an episodic satire of Arthurian legend, filled with surreal humor and philosophical digression.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 comedy, fantasy and adventure film. It is rated PG. It was made in the United Kingdom. The runtime is 91 minutes. Its comedy subtype is Satire. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones directed it. It stars Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 29,441 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 628 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 664 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them.
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 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 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 628.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
