Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Scored from 235 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
In a post-apocalyptic world overrun by a toxic jungle and giant insects, Princess Nausicaa of the peaceful Valley of the Wind tries to prevent war between warring kingdoms after a military power seizes a weapon capable of burning the jungle away. With empathy for both people and the misunderstood insects, she races to stop the violence before it triggers catastrophe.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, animation and science-fiction genres.
235 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 249 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 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 235.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
