Film · 1968 · Films · 1960s
Targets
Scored from 109 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Byron Orlok, an ageing horror star played by Boris Karloff, announces his retirement in Los Angeles, convinced his gothic monsters look quaint beside everyday American violence, and is talked into one last appearance at a drive-in theatre. Across town, Bobby Thompson, a clean-cut young gun enthusiast living with his wife and parents in the San Fernando Valley, keeps adding rifles and ammunition to the trunk of his car. Peter Bogdanovich's first feature, produced by Roger Corman around a few days Karloff still owed him, cross-cuts between the two strangers until their paths meet at the drive-in. It is a low-budget thriller that sets studio-era screen horror against a then-new kind of American killing.
Targets is a 1968 crime, drama and thriller film. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 30m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 189 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 109 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 110 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 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 Targets 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 · 1960s (1,929 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 109.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
