Film · 1960 · Films · 1960s
The Apartment
Scored from 408 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
C.C. 'Bud' Baxter is one of thousands of clerks at a Manhattan insurance firm, and he has found a shortcut upstairs: four executives borrow the key to his West Side apartment for their affairs, and repay him with glowing promotion memos. The arrangement leaves him walking the block in the cold most evenings and gives his neighbours a badly mistaken idea of his private life, but it works — until personnel director Jeff Sheldrake claims the key for himself. The promotion follows, and with it the discovery that the woman Sheldrake brings to the apartment is Fran Kubelik, the elevator operator Baxter has been trying to work up the nerve to ask out. Billy Wilder's black-and-white comedy-drama stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray.
Released in 1960, The Apartment is a comedy, drama and romance film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 2h 5m. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. Its certificate is Approved.
The calibrated figure is built from 408 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 418 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 The Apartment 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 408.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
