Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s
Swing Kids
Scored from 54 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A group of German teenagers in the 1930s bond over their love of American swing music, which is strictly forbidden by Nazi authorities. Their passionate defense of jazz culture puts them at odds with the Hitler Youth and the Nazi regime.
Swing Kids is a 1993 drama and music film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 52m and carries a PG-13 certificate. It plays in English, German.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 952 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. Only 54 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 61 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Swing Kids 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 54.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
