Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s
Rushmore
Scored from 427 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Max Fischer is an eccentric student at Rushmore Academy who channels his energy into elaborate extracurricular activities rather than academics. When a wealthy industrialist becomes a major school benefactor and develops an unexpected friendship with Max, their bond becomes strained when both develop romantic interest in a beautiful schoolteacher.
Released in 1998, Rushmore is a comedy and drama film. It was directed by Wes Anderson. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray and Olivia Williams head the billed cast. It runs 1h 44m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 7,826 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 427 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 454 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 Rushmore 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 427.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
