Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s
Swimming with Sharks
Scored from 111 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
An abusive, tyrannical film producer holds his new assistant captive in his home, subjecting him to psychological torment until the assistant orchestrates a revenge scenario.
Released in 1994, Swimming with Sharks is a comedy and crime film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy. It runs 1h 33m and carries an R certificate. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 111 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 116 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 Swimming with Sharks 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 111.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
