Film · 1991 · Films · 1990s
Point Break
Scored from 352 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Young FBI agent Johnny Utah goes undercover in the Southern California surfing scene to investigate a string of bank robberies committed by a crew known as the Ex-Presidents. As he infiltrates the tight-knit group led by the charismatic adrenaline junkie Bodhi, Utah is drawn into their world of surfing, skydiving, and risk, blurring the line between cop and convert.
Released in 1991, Point Break is an action, crime and thriller film.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4,517 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 352 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 371 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 Point Break 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 352.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
