Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s
Speed
Scored from 489 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
An LAPD SWAT officer must keep a Los Angeles city bus moving above 50 mph after an extortionist rigs it with a bomb that will detonate if the bus slows down. With a passenger drafted into driving, he races to find a way to disarm the device and stop the bomber before time and road run out.
Speed is a 1994 action, adventure and thriller film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 15,207 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 489 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 500 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.
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 Speed 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 489.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
