Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s
My Dinner with Andre
Scored from 166 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Two old friends, playwright Wallace Shawn and avant-garde theater director Andre Gregory, meet for dinner at a Manhattan restaurant after years apart. Over the course of the meal, Andre recounts his strange spiritual and experimental travels around the world, while Wally counters with a grounded defense of ordinary life, turning the conversation into a wide-ranging debate about meaning, complacency, and how to truly live.
Released in 1981, My Dinner with Andre is a comedy and drama film.
3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 473 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 166 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 168 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 My Dinner with Andre 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 166.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
