Film · 1979 · Films · 1970s
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Scored from 357 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
Terry Jones's Monty Python film opens in Bethlehem, where three wise men walk into the wrong stable and briefly present their gifts to the infant Brian Cohen, born the same night a few doors from Jesus. Grown up in Roman-occupied Judea and selling snacks at the amphitheatre, Brian falls in with the People's Front of Judea, a revolutionary cell far keener on committee motions and on hating the rival Judean People's Front than on fighting Rome, and joins largely to impress the activist Judith. A graffiti lesson from a centurion and a bungled raid on Pontius Pilate's palace leave him running through Jerusalem, where a crowd of would-be disciples decides he is the Messiah.
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) is a film IMDb files under the comedy genre. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Its certificate is R. It runs 1h 34m. Inside comedy it is classed as Satire.
2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 357 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 375 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 Monty Python's Life of Brian 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 357.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
