Film · 1973 · Films · 1970s
Soylent Green
Scored from 275 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
In an overpopulated, polluted 2022 New York City, a hard-boiled NYPD detective investigates the murder of a wealthy executive at the Soylent Corporation, which feeds the masses with processed rations. As he digs deeper with help from his aging research partner, he uncovers a disturbing secret about what the company's newest food product really is.
Soylent Green (1973) is a film IMDb files under the crime, mystery and science-fiction genres.
The calibrated figure is built from 275 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 281 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,702 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s 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 Soylent Green 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 · 1970s (2,406 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 275.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
