Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s
The Birdcage
Scored from 219 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Armand, the gay owner of a Miami drag club, and his flamboyant partner Albert must pretend to be a conventional straight couple when Armand's son brings home his fiancee and her ultra-conservative right-wing senator father for dinner. Chaos ensues as Albert struggles to play it straight and the two worlds collide in one disastrous evening.
Released in 1996, The Birdcage is a comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Satire.
The calibrated figure is built from 219 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 228 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 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 Birdcage 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 219.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
