Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s
Sense and Sensibility
Scored from 243 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
After their father's death leaves them in reduced circumstances, the Dashwood sisters must navigate love and society in Regency England. Reserved Elinor and passionate Marianne each fall for unsuitable or unavailable men - the reticent Edward Ferrars and the dashing John Willoughby - while the steady Colonel Brandon waits in the wings. Adapted by Emma Thompson from Jane Austen's novel.
Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 drama and romance film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 5 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 243 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 255 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s 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 Sense and Sensibility 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 243.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
