Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s
The Client
Scored from 133 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
An 11-year-old boy from a Memphis trailer park accidentally witnesses the suicide of a Mafia lawyer who reveals the location of a murdered senator's body before he dies. Hunted by a ruthless mob family and pressured by an ambitious federal prosecutor, the boy hires a struggling solo attorney to protect him and his family. Based on the John Grisham novel.
The Client (1994) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and mystery genres.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 133 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 136 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Client 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 133.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
