Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Peppermint Candy
Scored from 40 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
In the spring of 1999 Kim Yong-ho, bankrupt, unwashed and unwelcome, crashes a riverside reunion of the factory workmates he knew twenty years earlier, then climbs onto the railway bridge above them shouting that he wants to go back. Lee Chang-dong's reverse-chronology drama does exactly that, stepping backwards through seven episodes of Yong-ho's life: a collapsing furniture business and a marriage of mutual contempt, his years as a police detective interrogating student dissidents, his deployment as a raw conscript to Gwangju in May 1980, and the shy young man who once carried peppermint candies for Yun Sun-im. Between chapters, footage shot from a moving train runs in reverse.
Peppermint Candy is a 1999 drama film. It runs 2h 2m. It plays in Korean. Its country of origin is listed as South Korea.
Only 40 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 42 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 105 of whom clear the calibration test. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Peppermint Candy 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 40.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
