Film · 1968 · Films · 1960s
Planet of the Apes
Scored from 457 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Astronaut George Taylor (Charlton Heston) and his crew crash-land on a desert world after a near-light-speed voyage that has left centuries behind them. They find mute humans hunted as vermin and an ape civilisation — gorilla soldiers, orangutan clerics, chimpanzee scientists — ruling under sacred law. Wounded in the throat and at first unable to speak, Taylor becomes a laboratory specimen for the chimpanzee researchers Zira and Cornelius, while the orangutan minister Dr. Zaius treats a talking human as a threat to ape doctrine. Franklin J. Schaffner's science-fiction adventure, adapted from Pierre Boulle's novel, builds toward Taylor's public tribunal over which species came first.
Released in 1968, Planet of the Apes is a science fiction, thriller and adventure film. Franklin J. Schaffner directed it, with Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter in the cast. Its certificate is G. It runs 1h 52m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 457 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 465 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 1,928 other films from the 1960s 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 Planet of the Apes 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 · 1960s (1,929 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 457.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
