Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Scored from 2,498 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Two Jedi Knights, Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi, are sent to negotiate an end to a Trade Federation blockade of the peaceful planet Naboo. After rescuing Queen Amidala, they become stranded on Tatooine, where they meet a gifted slave boy named Anakin Skywalker who may be the prophesied Chosen One. As they fight to free Naboo, a mysterious Sith Lord reemerges, signaling the return of an ancient evil.
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace is a 1999 action, adventure and fantasy film.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 2,498 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,631 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 37,386 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 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 2,498.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
