Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
The Boondock Saints
Scored from 516 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Two Irish-American brothers in Boston, Connor and Murphy MacManus, come to believe they have been called by God to rid their city of evil men. They begin systematically hunting down members of the Russian and Italian mobs, while an eccentric FBI agent pieces together the trail of vigilante killings and wrestles with whether their crusade is justice or madness.
The Boondock Saints is a 1999 action, crime and thriller film.
The calibrated figure is built from 516 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 567 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 Boondock Saints 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 516.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
