Film · 1976 · Films · 1970s
Murder by Death
Scored from 190 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
Eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain invites five of the world's greatest detectives, each a parody of a famous fictional sleuth, to his remote mansion for dinner and a murder. He challenges them to solve a killing that will occur at midnight, with a million dollars at stake, leading to a night of absurd twists, hidden passages, and shifting identities.
Murder by Death (1976) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, crime and mystery genres. Its comedy subtype is Satire.
2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 190 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 191 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 861 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Murder by Death 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 190.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
